The spokesperson for the Obi/Datti Campaign Organization, Professor Chris Nwaokobia, has responded to Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka’s recent comments about Datti Baba Ahmed’s remarks on the judiciary.
In an interview with Arise TV news, Professor Chris alleged that he was moved to tears for three reasons after listening to Professor Soyinka’s interview.
He questioned why Professor Soyinka had not commented on the ethnic profiling of Igbo people and non-Yorubas in Lagos State.
He also pointed out that in 2014/2015, the current Vice President, Professor Yemi Obasanjo, had threatened to form a parallel government if the APC lost the 2015 election to the PDP, and Professor Soyinka did not condemn this open threat to the former Jonathan administration.
He said, ”I say this with all respect, when I listen to Professor Wole Soyinka’s interview and I wept for three reasons. And I’m going to put it out before Nigerians.
Firstly, I wept because my Senior brother and mentor left issues about ethnic profiling. He left the issues about the voters suppression in Lagos and dwelt chiefly on Datti’s comment about those who are interested in swearing a man, whose mandate in the declaration of his victory does not tally with the provision of our law. I felt deeply offended.
Then Secondly, instead of talking about those who were declared winners that have not stopped the ethnic profiling. He called Datti’s statement ‘Fascist’ and I felt very strange about it. I’m asking this question again with all sense of humility, why did he keep quiet during all this moral crisis.
Then thirdly, in 2014/2015, my senior brother who is the Vice President of Nigeria today, he said that the APC was going to form a parallel government if the PDP were to be declared the winner. Some of them said clearly that democracy will die in Nigeria should PDP be declared the winner. And I wonder why Prof has forgotten all that.”
