NIgeria’s Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka,
has expresed his happiness over the recent Abuja Accord signed by the
major political gladiators in the land, including President Goodluck
Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, as well as their respective parties, the
PDP and APC.
In the deal signed, the gladiators
agreed to run issues-based campaigns, refrain from campaigns which
incite violence or religious and ethnic profiling, among others.
Soyinka commended the efforts of Emeka
Anyaoku and Kofi Annan who helped midwife the accord. He said that if it
is adhered to with good will and sincerity, “it should ensure a
wholesome space for future elections, and pre-empt further violence.”
He further stated that he has never made
a statement endorsing any presidential or governorship contestant in
the race for 2015. He said anything attributed to him to the contrary
are “attributions are fabrications by faceless, often self-appointed
agents of deception, and should be publicly pilloried. Whenever I
choose to declare support for a candidate – as is my electoral right – I
shall ensure that I deploy a medium that places my authorship beyond
dispute. Internet habituees, Social Network etc are urged to be less
gullible, and avoid becoming cheap conduits for the deception industry!
“I take a less serious – indeed, near
carnivalesque – view of the opportunistic, and sometimes
de-contextualized use of genuine quotes from statements I have made in
the past – that is a different matter entirely. As a non-pensioned
writer however, and thus dependent on the proceeds of intellectual
property, such users should expect to hear from my Literary Agents.”
Soyinka hails Buhari and Jonathan over Abuja Accord, but says he has not endorsed any contestant
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