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Nobel laureate and play wright, Professor Wole Soyinka has apologized for his recent outburst against the Nigerian government for congratulating the new Gambia President-Elect, Adama Barrow in his landslide victory against the outgoing president, Yahya Jammeh who has been in power for 22 years.
Soyinka alleged in a press statement he signed that he misheard the comment on the election. He said he thought Jammeh had once again succeeded in manipulating the votes in his favour, hence his angry outburst against the Nigerian government for congratulating such fraudulent electoral process which obviously does not reflect the choice of the Gambian electorates.
His statement reads in full: “Just before setting off for my Media Chat at Freedom Park this morning, I was handed a Sunday newspaper with a comment on the recently concluded Gambian Presidential elections.
I totally misheard the comment and thought that ex-President Yahmeh had again succeeded in manipulating the votes to remain on the continent’s “sit-tight” roll of dishonour. It turned out that I had obtained the wrong picture. The torturer and notorious administrator of hallucinogenic broths to citizens had been dethroned. I therefore take back my criticism of Nigeria’s message of congratulations.
Let the entire West African sub-region and indeed the entire continent rejoice in the overthrow of the monatrocity who had sworn to rule for a billion years, a throw-back autocrat with delusions of eternal power who casually tossed opposition in dungeons and threw the keys away. It is now time to make Yahweh answer for his twenty-two year of boastful misrule and crimes against humanity.
Once again, my apologies for the miscommunication. I rejoice with the long-suffering citizens of Gambia, encourage the rehabilitation of that land strip, and recovery of its existence in full liberty, freed of fear, and restored to dignity as part of the sentient species”.