Ose Anenih said: “Now if Prof. Wole Soyinka is serious, and feels brave enough to fight someone in his own intellectual weight class, this is a debate I’d watch. Who wants to organize it?”
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has been advised to go head-to-head with an intellectual of his class and weight instead of proposing to debate the Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.
The suggestion was given by a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ose Anenih, whose father was the late Tony Anenih, a former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA).
Ose Anenih also recommended Professor Udenta Udenta as a suitable debating match for Soyinka.
Udenta had in an interview on Arise News, faulted Soyinka for criticising Baba-Ahmed over his comment about the outcome of the February 25 election.
Ose Anenih said: “Now if Prof. Wole Soyinka is serious, and feels brave enough to fight someone in his own intellectual weight class, this is a debate I’d watch. Who wants to organize it?”
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Recall that Soyinka faulted Baba-Ahmed over his comment that inaugurating Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s president on May 29, will signal the death of democracy in the country.
He then offered to debate Baba-Ahmed.
“If CHANNELS feels up to it, I offer myself willing to engage Mr. Datti – or any nominee of his – on its platform on this very bone of contention – one-on-one – without the malodorous intervention of media trolls, and with the same interviewer as mediator.
“That should be taken as a serious offer,” the Nobel Laureate stressed.”
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has slammed a fine of N5 million on Channels Television over the Baba-Ahmed interview.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, accused the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Baba-Ahmed, of treason over the comment.