There is a brewing war of words between the erudite scholar and Nobel Prize winner, prof. Wole Soyinka and former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff and if care is not taken, may take another dimension.
Sheriff was reacting to the open letter written by Prof. Soyinka, titled ‘Wage of Impunity’, where the professor of English alluded that the former governor was a confirmed sponsor of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, an accusation earlier made by self-styled Australian terror negotiator, Stephen Davies.
In the letter, Soyinka had insinuated that Sheriff who is an accused sponsor of the dreaded sect, had fled to Chad to welcome President Jonathan during his visit to the Chadian president.
Not one to take such blatant statement lying low, Sheriff has fired back in an interview in the Punch Newspaper where he called Prof. Soyinka a renown cultist who has no moral right to say he, Sheriff, has a hand in funding the operations of the deadly sect.


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