SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, (THEWILL) – Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has stated that it is sickening for anybody to be canvassing a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that Buhari should not contest the 2019 presidential election.
Aside being reported on Monday as saying that it was sickening for some people to be canvassing second term in office for Buhari midway into his first tenure, a video trending online had Soyinka saying: “My view right now is that Buhari needs to take a rest. I hope he doesn’t put himself up for Presidency in 2019.
“But that doesn’t mean that his programs and projects should take a rest.
“People can be very scornful by saying is it anti-corruption we are going to eat but it is up to us to see that programmes like the anti-corruption fight is empowered especially at a time when people are launching books.”
The renowned playwright further stated that those who posit that what Nigeria needed was just a restructuring of the mind were not saying the obvious.
Soyinka argued that restructuring of the mind was what could be done on daily basis, but that what Nigeria presently needed was real restructuring which he called “reconfiguring”.
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