Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has again lambasted the Muhammadu Buhari government.
Soyinka had conditionally supported Buhari’s candidacy in 2015, as he found the nearest alternative of Goodluck Jonathan candidacy more unacceptable.
He has however been loudly critising Buhari since, he believes, he veered off the noble track.
He, on Saturday again, knocked him as running a government with systemic failure.
According to him, Nigerian unity is not attainable under the current era.
Soyinka said this in Abuja during the book reading and signing of two of his books titled ‘Trumpism in Academe’ and ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth’ organised by Rovenheights Bookstore and Orisun Gallery.
Responding to a challenge by former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, that he write a Nigerian story that would evoke patriotism and inspire unity among the various tribes in the country, the Nobel laureate said “We had a critical moment and we lost that moment. The moment when this country could have come together; and the sense of oneness, belonging. That vision of oneness. We lost that moment. There has been more than one moment and we lost the moment. Will another one come? I don’t know. Right now I don’t see it under this government quite frankly.
“There is a failure, a systemic failure in present governance and I don’t know who can put it together. These days, I try to go some days without reading the newspapers. It is so depressing.”
