Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Thought For Today

Chidi:

In politics and political participation, all individuals have a right to their opinions. Soyinka cannot criticize the Obidients and expect the Obidients to seal their mouths. I am sure he knows this.

I cannot wake up in the morning and criticize anyone or any group and expect they won't attack me.

The rule in politics: don't get involved if you have no tolerance for insults and abuses. There is a Yoruba proverb: "The day you enter politics is when you will have the list of those who had sex with your mother before she married your father"!

TF

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 6:34 AM
To: USA African Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Thought For Today

Nobody on the opposite side have seriously challenged Wole Soyinka on his position that Peter Obi didn't win the February 25th Presidential Election.

 

As usual, it has been emotional outbursts all over the place.

 

In the process of claiming their fundamental right of freedom of speech, the Peter Obi crowd have tried to deny Wole Soyinka his own fundamental right of freedom of speech.

 

Suddenly, to them,  Soyinka is no longer all the things he used to be and that includes even being a writer that he is known to be all over the world with a 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature to booth.

 

Thanks.

 

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

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