Reveal Your Health Status, Soyinka Tells Buhari
Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical trip to the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on him to reveal the condition of his health.
Recall that the president spent nearly two months in Britain on a medical leave which gained numerous reactions from Nigerians, as some assumed Buhari dead following his refusal to publicly address the country.
Soyinka, who spoke in an interview with AFP at Paris Book Fair weekend, said that there is no doubt that the president is ill, adding that there is a need for Buhari to reveal his health status to Nigerians.
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“He’s ill, there’s no question, and I wish for heaven’s sake that people in public positions would just be honest.
“Illness is part of our existence. Buhari owes it to the nation and I don’t know why he and his advisors are being so coy about it,” Soyinka said.
The professor also said the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, had a right to assert themselves as a distinct people, even within a political and geographical zone anywhere in the world.
He said: “It’s not the real estate for me that defines a nation or a people, no, it’s a history, a culture.
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“What is a crime within an artificial entity like Nigeria? You have states being created which are not viable.”
