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Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described both Nigerian ruling party, the APC and the major opposition, PDP as two polluted inter – marriage in the country.
He stated this on Monday even as he added that their members have moved across so much that there is hardly any differences between them in terms of ideology and membership.
Soyinka noted that the APC was punished at the recent Osun State Governorship Election for committing a “sacrilege” against a slain former Minister of Justice, Bola Ige and those who represent his ideals.
The playwright was speaking on Channels Television’s NewsNight, a pre-recorded interview which aired on Monday.
He submitted, “When the results began to come in, I had just returned (from overseas). It was like a welcome present because I saw that party (APC) being punished for that act of sacrilege.”
He said the ‘bloodline’ between the two parties has diluted in different ways that one can hardly differentiate the two.
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Soyinka said: “The two parties (APC and PDP) have become very confusing to start with. Members have moved across so much…there has been so much inter-marriage and the bloodline has diluted in many aspects, being polluted in many aspects. It even got to a stage where a prominent member of the APC actually articulated the sentiment of: ‘Oh, come and join us and your sins will be forgiven’.
“It didn’t surprise me too much that somebody who has been so heavily implicated in the death of a prominent member of that party, Bola Ige, he is a founding member, that his memories should be so thrashed by consulting one of the prominent figures who featured in the events – forget whether he was innocent of the actual crime or not – was heavily implicated in the humiliation of that individual, that founding member of that party who was also the minister of justice of this nation.
“To actually catapult one of those crime suspects and proven contributors…and to find that that person has been given a position in that party (APC), in governance, and after the President (Muhammadu Buhari) had actually inaugurated a re-examination of that episode amongst other crimes, that is quite a bit of shock. And I mentioned at a time, that is a bit of sacrilege. And remember, this Osun is Bola Ige’s state.”
Boa Ige who was a Minister of Justice under former President Olusegun Obasanjo was assassinated on December 23, 2001, at his Ibadan residence in the Oyo State.