By Francis Ugwu Former Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, has hit back at Nobel Laureate, Prof W...
By Francis Ugwu
Former Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP,
Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, has hit back at Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, over his
comment that Peter Obi, LP’s presidential candidate, was unfit to lead the
country.
Baba-Ahmed said that he could say a few things to Soyinka
that could destroy him for good but he wouldn’t say that.
According to him, intellect doesn’t give Soyinka the right
to insult anybody.
Recall that Soyinka had said that Obi’s failure to reign on
his supporters attacking others with opposing views online was a pointer that he
is unfit to lead a country like Nigeria.
The literary icon also accused Obi of encouraging
‘Obidients’ to attack him and others with opposing views online.
However, while responding to Soyinka’s comment, Friday, on
Arise Television, Baba-Ahmed said what Soyinka was doing was an attempted
distraction, adding that he wouldn’t not join issues with him.
“The learned elder statesman, Prof Wole Soyinka is scared in
advance about what good Peter Obi will bring to Nigeria. He’s scared in advance
that the end is still looking very likely for his principal, for bad
governance.
“What Wole Soyinka is doing now is an attempted distraction,
which I beg you excuse me from joining issues with Wole Soyinka, please.
“You and I have much better things to do. For all I know, he
could continue to throw punches at my principal, at me, as small as I am. If he
continues to do that, all I can do is to grieve in my heart and continue to
pray for him.
“You see, intellect doesn’t give you the right to insult
anybody. I remember this Soyinka insulting late General Abacha, insulting him
to the core that he was daft. Nothing gives him the right to do that. Abacha
was not an academic. He was a soldier for God’s sake. And a good soldier in his
own way in his own right.
“I beg you, let’s push Soyinka and his likes aside; we have
better things to talk about.
“Nobel Laureates are loved and cherished by their people.
Soyinka keeps getting insulted, and it is his responsibility to maintain his
dignity and respect, not Peter Obi’s.
“I could say a few things to Wole Soyinka that could destroy
him for good, but I wouldn’t say that.”
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