Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reignited his disagreements with Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, saying the latter is neither God or an oracle.
Obasanjo in an interview with a group of journalists to mark his 80th birthday which comes up on Monday said although he holds no grudge against the playwright, Soyinka should not be seen as either God or an oracle.
Asked whether he had forgiven Soyinka after the writer openly kicked against Obasanjo’s aspiration to become United Nations Secretary General, the former President said: “You’re absolutely wrong. I don’t hold a grudge.
“Wole Soyinka is not God. And I don’t believe there’s any human being that is absolutely right. Wole Soyinka has what I believe he has. He’s a gifted person in his own way.
“But Wole Soyinka is not an oracle. I will not accept Wole…
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