Former president Obasanjo and Prof. Soyinka are both
in their 80’s, they have always had a long love/hate
relationship…always coming for each other at the
slightest opportunity. The latest person to come for the
other is Obasanjo. Speaking to Channels TV’s ‘Book
Club’ yesterday, where he was interviewed about his
controversial book ‘My Watch’ where he also trashed
Soyinka, Obasanjo said what he wrote about the
literary icon in his book was purely his view and that
Soyinka did not have to agree with him.
“Wole Soyinka is a gifted man. I have always
acknowledged that but he is a bad politician and I have
also always said that. That is my own point of view.
He may agree with it, he may not agree with it. But
having said that, I also, in my book, bring out Wole
Soyinka as I see him and that’s my own judgment;
that’s my own perspective of him.
He may agree, he may not agree but anybody can
bring out his own perspective of me. For instance, I
know that if I want somebody to give me the best wine,
one of the people I will go to is Wole Soyinka and I
know he has a taste for good wine and I said that in
the book.” he said.
Continue to see what OBJ wrote about Soyinka that
ticked him off “For Wole, no one can be good, nor can
anything be spot-on politically except that which
emanates from him or is ordained by him. His friends
and loved ones will always be right and correct, no
matter what they do or fail to do. He is surely a better
wine connoisseur and a more successful aparo (guinea
fowl) hunter than a political critic.”
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