This Is The House That Fraud Built – Soyinka Attacks Obasanjo In New Book

 Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, has been called out by Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in his new book titled ‘Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Gani’s Unfinished Business.’ The book was released to the public by Bookcraft on Tuesday. Soyinka’s speech at the 10th memorial lecture of the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi was largely influenced by the book; ‘I know that deep inside, there is a soakaway pond of personal insecurity struggling to be drained. Beneath every bully, there is a scared product of insecurity and troubled conscience. Now, fight your own demons as best as you can, and feel free to flagellate Buhari (President Muhammadu) with all the weapons in your armoury. I have only one demand: keep away from movements struggling to restore this nation to the path of sanity and even moderate rectitude. End your hijacking propensity.” Not stopping there, Soyinka also talked about the Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State, built by Obasanjo saying it is a ‘Presidential Laundromat.’ “That structure in Abeokuta remains a moral eyesore to those who were in a position to obtain even a glimmering of the proceedings that inflicted such a purulent carbuncle on the landscape of my state, Ogun. However, even the grossest evil can be turned to some good. When we were school pupils, one of our illustrated reading texts was one entitled, ‘This is the house that Jack built.’ Today, and forevermore, generations will point to that thing which I have daubed the Presidential Laundromat and say: This is the house that Fraud built.”    On Obasanjo’s ‘governance record he said; ‘I dare Obasanjo to meet me one-on-one on any podium to present the facts of that stewardship to the Nigerian people… Just how did you, in eight years, rise to the challenges of power generation for a population of a hundred and fifty million people, endowed with enormous energy resources…“Eight years-repeat, eight years in office, and the elected estate manager of this vast territory could not even provide the modicum level of power to activate even a low-level cottage industrial culture. And such individual has the nerve to sermonise about rising to challenges.”  Photo Credit; Getty

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