… Says Buhari has developed inability to listen to Southern governors
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has faulted said that Nigeria is on the fast lane to failure should the federal government fail you decentralise.
He also faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s stance on digging up a colonial law which he says is meant to recover lands on behalf of certain private businesses.
Recall that President Buhari had said he had ordered the Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami to dig into the gazette of the 1st Republic when people were obeying laws with rearing of cattle.
According to the president, Abubakar Malami, had begun the process of recovering land from persons who have converted cattle grazing routes for their personal use.
Speaking on Monday in an exclusive interview by AriseTV, Wole Soyinka said Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has displayed his inability to listen to citizens and respect the decisions of the southern governors when he directed the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to produce a gazette, which drafted grazing routes in all parts of the country in the First Republic.
He said the language of the President is disturbing because he may have felt that through his utterances he was on a roll while in actuality the nation is on a nosedive.
Commenting on President Buhari’s speech when he featured on Arise TV last week, he said, “I must congratulate him on one thing, he seemed to recover, he was energetic, and was quite articulate. He seemed to think about what he was saying. It was a very different kind of Buhari.”
Soyinka also said that Nigeria may no longer remain as a nation if it fails to decentralise.
Speaking on the unity of the country, Wole Soyinka said, “If Nigeria fails to decentralise as fast as possible manifestly not as rhetoric, then Nigeria can not stick together.”
“This is what everybody is saying. Politicians, analysts and economists have all said it.”
He noted that citizens will find an alternative survival route if a nation such as Nigeria is on a suicidal slide.
