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Home » Success Makanjuola » 2019: Soyinka blasts former president for asking Nigerians to support ‘Lucifer’

2019: Soyinka blasts former president for asking Nigerians to support ‘Lucifer’

Olaotan Falade by Olaotan Falade
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday warned Nigerians to be wary of a former president who pretends to be the conscience of the nation.

Soyinka said this in Abuja at a symposium on fake news organised by BBC News.

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The playwright, who was a panelist at the event tagged, ‘Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News’, urged the traditional media not to spread unfounded allegations as the electronic media sometimes do.

The Nobel Laureate said if the former leader had been referring to a certain person for eight years as ‘a devil’ and is now telling Nigerians to vote for the devil, then there is a reason for Nigerians to express some doubt.

Soyinka said, “We have got to develop a very healthy skepticism. If someone in a position of power for eight years has lectured a nation for eight years and after that, continued year after year to continue to direct the minds of a whole nation in one direction, only saying, ‘This is Lucifer from hell’ for eight years in office and several more years out of office saying, ‘This is Lucifer’ and then one day he changed and says: ‘Behold your redeemer;’ which of the two is fake news?”

He did not mention the former president he was referring to, nor the alleged Lucifer.

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