By Jennifer Y Omiloli
Prof. Wole Soyinka has pummeled President Muhammadu Buhari for his “moderate reaction” in managing the dread brought about by Fulani herders crosswise over numerous areas of Nigeria.
He said Buhari has flopped on the security danger presented by herders, including that he was rehashing the mix-ups of his ancestor, Goodluck Jonathan, in not managing the Boko Haram hazard in an auspicious and satisfactory style.
“The man bites the dust in all who keep quiet even with oppression”, he said.
Soyinka showed up on the BBC’s Hardtalk program on Monday and tied down by Zeinab Badawi.
Responding to Badawi’s inquiry that he upheld Buhari in 2015 depicting the ex-armed force general as an “improved democrat”, Soyinka said Buhari “won of course” in 2015 in light of the fact that it was hard to back Jonathan and which implied supporting a continuation of the defilement related with that routine. Nigerians were gotten “between the fiend and the dark blue ocean”.
Soyinka reprimanded Jonathan’s insufficient reaction to Boko Haram, however setting the fault for neglecting to stop the issue from the beginning at the feet of Olusegun Obasanjo, who was president from 1999 to 2007.
He said; “Obasanjo added to the development of Boko Haram by not anticipating the principal representative in one of the northern states from building up a “religious state”.
Soyinka said that the president neglected to act since he was “bargained” by his desire to proceed in office past the second term limit.
He was anyway quiet concerning why Buhari’s reaction to the killings of the herders was so deficient and said small regarding how the issue could be handled successfully.
