Preambles:
Toyin:
1. Soyinka is not a God; I take my lead from him in not regarding any one alive as a God (no matter how powerful) provided they are still clothed in human flesh. (And no nation as a nation of angels to boot)
2. I have never belonged to any organisation formed by Soyinka and I know of only one person on the forum who claim to belong to Wole Soyinka Society either at the laureates behest or by other means. One way of answering the plethora of questions you throw at me is to ask you to direct those questions to that fellow of that society. But since these questions are directed at me I will try my best to answer them as a mere student of the nature of person we discuss is.
3. I know as well as others on this forum that you took personal the manner in which GEJ lost power to Buhari.
Let me start from your assessment of the Soyinka/GEJ relationship.
You seem to think Soyinka is a political jobber and the only reason he did not support GEJ is because the former president did not give him a job. Pray what job did Obasanjo give his kinsman? Do you honestly think Soyinka would accept a job from Obasanjo to whom he prefers to serve in an informal advisory role?
If GEJ is so contemptuous of such a figure as Soyinka from whose constituency (intellectual) he sought political power and the snubbery is reciprocated, whose fault is that?
You felt because IBB gave him a job that was why he did not see anything wrong with that regime. Do you know how many times he (Soyinka) trawled the corridors of power at Westminster asking Parliament to put in sanctions to force him (IBB) out? That he almost became a nuisance? Until Her Majesty had to break protocols (leading the Commonwealth from the front) and reading IBB the riot act, which convinced him that it was time to 'step aside.'
The need to replace GEJ stemmed primarily from his handling of the Boko Haram issue. A nation was threatened with dissolution; there has to be a nation to have debates before the debates can take place; this is not personal. On this account Buhari has delivered.
As mortal Soyinka can only do his bit in his personal capacity and leave others to do theirs too.
Personally I wish Soyinka would have nothing to do with military regimes in his own country but if others invite them in dancing in the streets to welcome them as messiahs (as in Buhari) what is he do until the regimes image as messiahs contradict their dispositions.
As you can see he has only one country on earth he can call his own.
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