Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has taken the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to the cleaners.
To Soyinka, the level of insecurity in the land is an indication that nobody is in charge of the country.
Describing 2020 as the most challenging year as a result of myriads of security problems, the octogenarian activist declared that the Nigerian situation was worse as a result of the “imperial nature of its leadership at the socio-political and religious levels”.
Soyinka spoke at The Booksellers, venue of the presentation of his new book, ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth’.
The book, with over 500 pages, took him about 40 years to write.
Addressing the audience, he did not spare the All Progressives Congress (APC)- led Federal Government.
“With the turbulence that characterises year 2020, and as activities wind down, the mood has been repugnant and very negative. I don’t want to sound pessimistic but this is one of the most pessimistic years I have known in this nation and it wasn’t just because of COVID-19, no. Natural disasters had happened elsewhere but how have you managed to take such in their strides?
“Was calamity as a result of human negligence or as a result of malignant activities when people find themselves under the control of other beings which I am afraid what most Nigerians find themselves in? It is like you don’t know from where the blow would descend. That is not the way a nation should be and that is not the way the citizens should exist.
“Situation has reached a point where you are not very sure of where you are going and where you will end it. As I had said before, you don’t believe, in many instances, that anybody is in charge. That, really, is a parlous condition for any nation. So, I am afraid it has not been a very good year for me generally”.
