Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he warned the presidential candidates of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, respectively, that they should leave the stage for fresh energies to assume the helm of affairs in Nigeria.
Soyinka disclosed this while speaking in an interview with Arise TV today, Wednesday.
He said: “I told Atiku when he was contesting and came to see me in my Ikeja office few years ago; he came with Gbenga Daniel, my former governor (of Ogun state).
“I said to him, ‘Listen, it’s about time you people left the stage, why don’t you just go away. We need an infusion of fresh blood into the system’.
“But, for some people, maybe they read it as bloodletting. No I said infusion of fresh blood. I said so I can not support you. I think your generation should quit.
“But, he wasn’t the only one. I then sought out the current President-elect, Tinubu and I gave him exactly the same message. I said, “Whatever you people are planning, I’m convinced that we need the young generation, new thinking, new sensibilities, new energies.”
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“So, why don’t you just leave the stage, let’s look for somebody, a really brilliant individual then use your entire influence to catapult that person to power, and this country see a massive transformation.
“We spoke for about an hour and a half, and then Bola Tinubu said, “No.” He said there were still things he felt he could still contribute,” Soyinka said.
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Meanwhile, Soyinka said he and Tinubu have not met in the last five years. “Bola Tinubbu and myself have not met, that getting to five years ago. We’ve not met once since.”
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