My head should be examined if I joined Chief Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria (CN) – Prof. Wole Soyinka

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The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has vowed never to join Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria (CN) saying if he did, his head should be examined.
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka dismissed the CNM, saying he would need to have his head examined should he identify with the Obasanjo-inspired group.
Prof. Soyinka spoke in an interview with BBC Yoruba. Adamu spoke at a news conference in Abuja.
Soyinka said: “Me? Obasanjo would establish a group and I will become a member of such group? That means they should get a psychiatrist to examine me.”
He also spoke about the controversial statement by former military President Ibrahim Babangida, also on Buhari’s administration.

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Soyinka said: “When these soldiers begin to speak, we are supposed to get suspicious and ask what exactly do they have in mind? It is possible that what they have in mind is different from what we have in mind.”
“You can look at it from two perspectives – the messenger and the message. The message should be examined closely. We should not look at the misdeeds of the messenger alone. Let’s start by asking, is he saying the truth or telling lies, or is he being tricky?
“If he is saying the truth and talking about things that are beneficial to the masses, we would allow that be. After that, we would now look at the person speaking; what is in his mind? … even if it’s a little child who is speaking, as far as that child is saying the truth, we won’t ask the child to keep quiet. We won’t ask the child, what do you know? We would listen. It is the same situation with those who have presided over the affairs of this nation without making significant progress.

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“We have seen their weaknesses, we have seen their nakedness in public, if they now want to be covered by saying that they have turned a new leaf, we would examine that, too. What I am saying in essence is that what they have said should also be examined.”
He urged the youth to come together and present a candidate to represent them, adding that the older generation would support them.
“We have a lot of them. It is the turn of the younger ones. If they come together, as we speak, if they can start now and bring out one individual among them, we will work with him,” Soyinka said.
“We are going to give them the support they need to transform the country. People like us are supposed to sit somewhere.”

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