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Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate,
Prof. Wole Soyinka, has termed as inappropriate and diversionary media reports that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 poll, Peter Obi’s visit to his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence on Sunday was for reconciliation.
Soyinka made the clarification in a statement on Monday titled, “A visitation, and the allure of reconciliation. ’’
Obi’s visit to Soyinka came in the wake of a war of words between the Nobel laureate and Obi’s supporters, known as Obidients, after Soyinka criticised the vice presidential candidate of the LP, Datti Baba-Ahmed, over his comments during an interview on Channels TV.
After the visit to Soyinka, Obi had, in a tweet, noted, among other things, that he cherished the Sunday visit to the respected writer, saying it was intended to “erase the needless misconceptions about the relationship between the great icon and the Obidient family. ’’
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But Soyinka, in his statement on Monday, expressed reservation over the use of ‘reconciliation’ in some reports on Obi’s visit to him.
The Nobel laureate said, “Before it gains traction and embarks on a life of its own, I wish to state clearly that the word ‘reconciliation,’ inserted into some reports of Peter Obi’s visit to me yesterday, Sunday, May 7, is a most inappropriate, and diversionary invocation.
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