Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, calling former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, a degenerate, liar, predator and sadist, has challenged him to
swear whether he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual
gratification while he presided over the affairs of Nigeria.
Soyinka
and Obasanjo Soyinka spoke in his Interventions VIII series, titled:
‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?’ meaning “Gani’s Unfinished Business,”
launched recently in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
He said Obasanjo knows him so well that he does not make accusations lightly and that he despises snide insinuations.
“I now challenge you (Obasanjo) to search your soul, very deeply, and
swear to this nation that you never awarded oil blocks in return for
sexual gratification. I do not make accusations lightly and I despise
snide insinuations. I believe you know me well enough. And I am no
prude, I am not a hypocrite of sexual desire, nor am I interested in the
seamy side of Power. Take your time, think deeply and remember that
each day brings you closer and closer to your Maker and the Day of
Judgment-going by your own professions."
Soyinka said
sex-for-grades as a solution to that burdensome energy seemed to have
become the practice, saying that even when Donald Trump and Bill Clinton
were accused of sexual misconduct, no one ever accused Trump of using
his nation’s assets for a romp on the presidential desk of the oval
office and that not even Clinton who nearly lost his office through
Monica Lewinsky, was ever accused of passing off any of the White House
heirlooms, or influenced contracts in return for sexual favour.
“If
I denounce you (Obasanjo) as a degenerate in need of help, remember
that I do not require fiction. Verifiable truth is solemnly at my
disposal. I do not concoct a thousand snipers for a thousand listed
enemies of governance-one of the most impudent egregious fantasies ever
manufactured by a former ruler, simply to destroy a successor and
persuade oneself that one is a maker and breaker of governments,” he
said.
Soyinka also said that during Obasanjo’s celebration of
the 10th anniversary of his Presidential library, the former president
accused him of blocking his ambitions to become the Secretary General of
the United Nations.
According to Soyinka, “could someone please
stop crediting me with that level of international clout? Of course, I
feel totally content and fulfilled with my contribution to that
operation to ‘save our world’ from the clutches of a predator, sadist
and liar-convincing evidence of which we provided in our successful
diplomatic offensive-but the umbrage should also go to that very Femi
Falana and the late Beko Ransome-Kuti, with whom I worked in close
collaboration.”
Soyinka also said that under Obasanjo’s watch,
and with proven collaboration, an elected governor was kidnapped, locked
in a toilet and held there under duress to force him to sign cheques on
the state treasury, saying that “he escaped confinement, thanks to a
sympathetic policeman , but the state went up in flames. The state radio
and television houses were torched. The House of Assembly and the law
courts—my own special preserve-were vandalized. Who did you say was
President at that time?”
Soyinka made reference to a letter
written to Obasanjo by Col. Abubakar Umar, in which the former military
governor accused Obasanjo of awarding oil block indiscriminately and
illegally.
(NAN and PMNEWS)
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