Obidients keen on Soyinka’s debate challenge cos they are following his example
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Obidients and Labour Party (LP) vice presidential candidate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed are ready to take up Wole Soyinka’s challenge for a television debate, says
Obi-Datti Movement spokesman Professor Chris Nwakobia.
He made the declaration on Arise TV when asked whether Baba-Ahmed will agree to go head-to-head with the Nobel Laureate.
“Oh yes, he will and effectively do so. The least of the Obidients can take up that debate and do profoundly.
“I know Prof Wole Soyinka, I know he will not go for that debate because the point is that history is replete with facts and figures,” Nwakobia said.
But Nwakobia speculated Soyinka would not dare come out for the debate saying the man of letters, who he described as his mentor, goofed in taking sides with the oppressors of the people.
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Nwakobia defends Baba-Ahmed
Nwakobia defended the assertion of Baba-Ahmed that it would be illegal to swear in as President, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he did not win one-quarter of the votes in Abuja as stipulated in the Constitution, according to reporting by Vanguard.
“Do you know that some of us see him [Soyinka] as our mentor because he understands the fact that disobedience upon an unjust law is indeed the greatest respect for law,” he stressed.
“In 1965 or so with a gun he [Soyinka] invaded a radio station and refused the announcement of [Ladoke] Akintola as the winner of an election. History is such a beautiful spectacle and I implore my egbon and the esteemed laureate to oblige the young people who are saying that on the mandate given to Peter Obi we stand.
“When those who are merchants in electoral larceny took their mandate with hot coal they can’t close their hands because we are going to take it in the court.”
Nwakobia described the 2023 presidential election as one that would beatify the 2007 election conducted under Maurice Iwu as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman.
