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GEORGE OKOJIE

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on Tuesday denied comments attributed to him in a national Newspaper on the istration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Soyinka said he never uttered words attributed to him by the newspaper, which sought to cite the plague of violence by nomadic herdsmen for the “erosion of Buhari’s achievements.”

The newspaper had reported that Soyinka lamented the growing challenges posed to the security of Nigerians by herdsmen, saying President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to resolve them has eroded his istration’s achievements.

Soyinka in his full reder made available to journalists stated, ’’Re: Misrepresentation of Statement by The Nation’s Reporter. I denounce, in very strong , the report in THE NATION of July 15, 2019, regarding my exchange with school pupils who visited me in Abeokuta, on Sunday, July 14, as part of the organized events on my 85th Birthday.

‘’I am appalled that such a twisted and unprofessional could be disseminated by a paper that has earned itself a high level of public regard, not only for its reporting, but for the galaxy of perceptive contributors on national affairs and other issues of public interest. It is a gross disservice to truth and conscience, and the pursuit of the journalistic profession as a whole.

‘’At no time did I utter the words attributed to me by that paper, which sought to cite the plague of violence by nomadic herdsmen for the “erosion of Buhari’s achievements”. Indeed, at no time in that exchange did the “achievements” of Nigeria’s current government – real or fictitious –come under consideration. The headlining is especially gratuitous, fictitious, and dishonest.

‘’For the avoidance of doubt, a school pupil had requested my assessment of ALL past Nigerian governments. In order to enable these pupils develop as objective, all-round critics, constantly aware of the context in which opinions should be formed, I began by warning them that governance is a difficult undertaking.

‘’I went on to add that governing a complex nation space known as Nigeria is especially challenging. The NATION’s report has mischievously detached, then reattached that comment elsewhere in order to introduce achievements of his or her own conceiving.

‘’For good measure, comments on rampaging herdsmen were similarly displaced and relocated to provide Buhari’s government alibi for failures. This is crude, mind-boggling, propaganda, unworthy of any but suborned professionals.

‘’Such outrageous ploy is no different from the conduct of social media commentators – especially at election time –who, lacking the courage to propagate their personal opinions, impudently steal the identities of others – mine being a favorite — including pasted photographs, in order to participate in public discourse. It is sad to see this unprincipled conduct being adopted by the print media.’’

https://leadership.ng/2019/07/16/soyinka-denies-criticising-pmbs-istration/

Prof we are disappointed, that man on the plane may have done a good thing collecting his seat back.

This is an opportunity to speak for him, his generation, his future, his country. Even if they were not your exact words, you could have buttressed your point while commenting on the issue rather than ridiculing the whole article while wanting his seat..

We are disappointed prof.... at 85 sir, you have nothing to fear, even death.

Baba no wan offend bubu

They'll accuse him of cowardice.

Afonja eh.....

Wetin dem don give baba. I'm beginning to think OBJ has more balls than a lot of them

The ussual suspect.. the one that spread fake news.., the ones lamenting over afenifere's loss more than afenifere. The loudmouthed Buhari's number one enemy.... Its a surprise they haven't Photoshoped Isreali massod or Donald trump leading US seal to Ore in their drones and ari submaines to arrest fulani herdsmen terrorising the "African Jews"


Awon Emir of Fake News, chief wailers and lamentation expert



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If he criticise him is it a bad thing? Nonsense!

Media

Cowards, na their way.

Only children of hate criticize Buhari

lol
what is soyinka afraid of at his age?
he seems to be forgetting much these days . dementia is gradually creeping in

Some lots are just bent on destroying The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Its glaring who the enemies are now.

Okay we don hear. na afonja way sha.

Oh really, rather than condemn the newspaper for twisting your words, I think it's prudent for you to sue them so as to make an example to others who would want to follow that line of behaviour.

It's a known fact today that newspapers and bloggers love to twist the words of people just to gain traffic for their blogs or website.

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BlackCrainte:
Some lots are just bent on destroying The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Its glaring who the enemies are now.

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Praktikals:
Only fools and children of hate criticize Buhari

One is below!

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CrestMan:
Soyinka has acted like a typical coward afonja

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Interesting

Vanguad, Punch, Tribune and most newspaper nowadays, they are not different from normal blog. One of the reason why i don't believe all these Fulani news they have been shunning out lately.

I hope Vanguard has paid Kiss Daniel his 10 billion for defamation.

To much grammar no go kill this man ;Djust to defend himself

Coward old man

Praktikals:
Only fools and children of hate criticize Buhari

Shut up! The truth is glaring but you defend an illiterate ionately. Who always trades blames instead of accepting his failures.
Be guided please

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BlackCrainte:


One is below!

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