Yoruba Group Lashes Soyinka For Attacking Obasanjo

The Yoruba Consultative Forum has slammed Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, for “reveling in a poisonous vendetta and egregious abuse” against former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

This was contained in a statement by its President, Prof. Tejumade Rhodes, on Tuesday.

“He (Obasanjo) frustrated the June 12 and often puts himself forward on any issue… I don’t remember any good he has done. It will be very difficult to find one. I can’t remember any at this moment,” Soyinka has said in one of his meetings.

While lambasting Soyinka for saying Obasanjo was part of Nigeria’s problems, the group said, he had “definitely crossed the bar of decency and civilised literary grace.”

The forum said, “At a time when everyone is nudging Obasanjo forward as the courageous rallying point against the present dislocations in our polity, Soyinka is salivating in some primitive laceration of the old soldier, revelling in a poisonous vendetta and egregious abuse against Obasanjo.

“In Soyinka’s warped cosmology, he insists that Obasanjo is not the fit and proper person to lead the new movement against the warped national polity. This is malicious, undignifying, spurious, a drooling mechanical twaddle bound for literary garbage.

“Of course Obasanjo, like all of us, is not perfect. But he is a courageous man, a superlative patriot who contends with any errant power with thorough sincerity, with masterful resolve to rectify the observable wrongs.

“Soyinka has now eroded his once sterling heights of great crusader and crashed his status to a Lilliputian pamphleteer, angry at the world, pouring venom everywhere without tactical purity.”

“Enough is enough,” the YCF said.