Described as “a non-partisan, citizen-based national rally against terror,” the event is scheduled to hold at the cricket pitch of the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos.

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has pulled out of a rally in Lagos featuring President Goodluck Jonathan and planned by one of Nigeria’s prominent activists, Joe Okei-Odumakin, who runs the non-governmental organization, Women Arise. The rally, which is scheduled to start tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. has been tagged an anti-terror event.

But in a brief interview with a correspondent of SaharaReporters this evening, Professor Soyinka said he decided to pull out of the rally because things did not seem as they initially appeared when he first agreed to join the rally.

In a related development, Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, told SaharaReporters that he had initially agreed to join the “walk against terror” because he was told that the event was a “non-partisan” action against terrorism. Asked if he would still perform at the event tomorrow, Mr. Kuti, who is one of the sons of the late Afrobeat maestro Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, told SaharaReporters that he was not sure anymore if the rally would be interpreted as a political endorsement for President Jonathan.

Mr. Jonathan has reportedly arrived in Lagos to lead the rally, a Presidency source told our correspondent.

Described as “a non-partisan, citizen-based national rally against terror,” the event is scheduled to hold at the cricket pitch of the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos.

A source close to Professor Soyinka stated that the Nobel laureate was already preparing his presentation at tomorrow’s rally when word reached him that President Jonathan’s associates were behind a disruptive protest rally held in Lagos earlier today and organized by the national coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Gani Adams. OPC members wielded guns, machetes and spears as they terrorized the city and its residents. Our reporters said the OPC thugs assaulted people, tore down APC campaign posters, and destroyed vehicles and other property.

The Nobel laureate declined to state whether his decision to pull out of tomorrow’s event stemmed from today’s violent action by the OPC, which paralyzed parts of Lagos.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/16/soyinka-pulls-out-president-jonathan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Canti-terror%E2%80%9D-rally-lagos

if you need to eat with a devil, you spoon must be long..

Guess baba Soyinka didn't have the courage to dine with the devil..

Meanwhile #IHaveDecided

helinues:
if you need to eat with a devil, you spoon must be long..

Guess baba Soyinka didn't have the courage to dine with the devil..

Meanwhile #IHaveDecided

really??

u read the whole news, and that was what you could take away from it??

guess humans comprehend things differently

*sighs*

The END of Joe okei Odumakin is here.....GEJ dollars at work!

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Wole Soyinka refuses to be deceived. Jonathan and his handlers doing everything to dine with honest people to remain relevant.

#JonathanMustGo

Oga Jona is a Goner.

He can pull out if he so wishes.He isn't needed there anyway,those who matters in the current scheme of nigeria politics will be there. Soyinka should just eat and rest at home.

The evil, terrorism promoting and callous president set up the anti terror deception rally while at the same time supporting and protecting terrorist and militants with state security apparatus while they terrorize lagoons, damage and vandalize properties in the same Lagos state where he's camping out in again.


There is a special mansion waiting for this evil man in hell...

Sahara reporters never see anything good in the president's action, always looking for the slightest opportunity to strike but still,






#it'sjonathantill2019

Jonathan is just trying all the possible dubious ways to move closer to we'll respected,distinguished and honest people,has he forgotten Wole Soyinka is a Nobel laureate? You can't play people like that cos they already knew what you're up to

who pulled him in in the first place

AwesomelyMade:
Sahara reporters never see anything good in the president's action, always looking for the slightest opportunity to strike but still,






#it'sjonathantill2019

is too bad of Gani adams to terrorise d public with weapon like that without getting arrested,and dis same insane president award more contract to him,to terrorise us more.and saTANiod did not see anything wrong with that,because u guys are insane like ur president.

phayvoursky:
SOYINKA ISN'T PARTISAN; REALLY



WELL HIS OPINION DOESN'T COUNT. WHETHER HE JOINS THE RALLY OR NOT.

THE RALLY WILL HOLD AND GEJ WILL WIN.

As d earth is far from heaven is ur sanity far from u.get a brain

onatisi:
He can pull out if he so wishes.He isn't needed there anyway,those who matters in the current scheme of nigeria politics will be there. Soyinka should just eat and rest at home.

Using OPC to try convincing people to vote by scare tactics.........very "smart" idea.

More sane people are running from GEJ now. Only OPC like thugs, agbero bus drivers and obnoxious, illiterate traders, oil thieves, prostitute actors and actresses, ignorant people, 2 faced charlatans, psychophants that are left on the GEJ train.

ba7man:
Using OPC to try convincing people to vote by scare tactics.........very "smart" idea.

More sane people are running from GEJ now. Only OPC like thugs, agbero bus drivers and obnoxious, illiterate traders, oil thieves, prostitute actors and actresses, ignorant people, 2 faced charlatans, psychophants that are left on the GEJ train.

bros if opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,psychophants vote for gej ,then he has won already!you have given gej over 70% of totall votes then .God bless you bro . You are wonderful.

Has d nation's capital been moved to Lagos ni? cos I don't understand this everyday Jonathan's visit to south west.

terrorism march in Lagos? what happened to kano? Better still they should be marching in northeast then we shall take them serious.

I was vexed to the bone and marrow when I saw a picture of OPC members destroying APC campaign posters right in the presence of security forces (Army and Police).. It then downed on my that this election is gonna be bloody. It's gonna the FG vs The People.. God will be alongside US!

onatisi:
bros if opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,psychophants vote for gej ,then he has won already!you have given gej over 70% of totall votes then .God bless you bro . You are wonderful.

a large majority of them don't have the passion to go queue in the sun for hours to get their PVC to vote for GEJ.

They're just after their next meal......or next Alomo bitters.

onatisi:
bros if opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,psychophants vote for gej ,then he has won already!you have given gej over 70% of totall votes then .God bless you bro . You are wonderful.

So you mean say your mother,father,brothers,sisters,cousins,aunts and others are all opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,psychophants? You are wonderful!

ba7man:
a large majority of them don't have the passion to go queue in the sun for hours to get their PVC to vote for GEJ.

They're just after their next meal......or next Alomo bitters.

bros ,how many doctors ,engineers and bankers even go out to vote talkless of standing on their 2 feets for 6hours just to vote?the people u are rejecting are those that really vote and they are those gej has gone to and they have accepted to vote for him.

experimentist:
So you mean say your mother,father,brothers,sisters,cousins,aunts and others are all opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,psychophants? You are wonderful!

use ur brains to reason intelligently what I have written and if it is too difficult for u to comprehend call someone to interpret it to u . When u get the correct meaning then u can quote me .

Ok

onatisi:
use ur brains to reason intelligently what I have written and if it is too difficult for u to comprehend call someone to interpret it to u . When u get the correct meaning then u can quote me .

Nigga, what you wrote up there is not a rocket science. It's as simple as 1,2,3. You trna tell us that majority of Nigerians are opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,and psychophants.. That why me ask you again?

onatisi:
bros ,how many doctors ,engineers and bankers even go out to vote talkless of standing on their 2 feets for 6hours just to vote?the people u are rejecting are those that really vote and they are those gej has gone to and they have accepted to vote for him.

deceive ursef. No region has d patience to vote and stand in d sun to vote their icon like hausas. they have done it before and even more determined now. ss se sw has no parity with them wen it comes to massive votes.

onatisi:
bros ,how many doctors ,engineers and bankers even go out to vote talkless of standing on their 2 feets for 6hours just to vote?the people u are rejecting are those that really vote and they are those gej has gone to and they have accepted to vote for him.

I spent 2 days trying to get my PVC, my friends did.....I know lots of people that abandoned the comfort of their homes to go get their PVCs...........and they didn't do it because they felt GEJ is a great president, they did because they're tired of watching re-painted locomotives and a handful of new trains being hailed as the future, They're tired of making a loss whenever they make a business transaction, they're tired of watching power stations commissioned on TV in the midst of darkness, they're tired of watching the President defend corruption, tired of his wife making a fool of herself in public, tired of paying NEPA's crazy bills.

Anti-terror rally in Lagos? What happened to Borno,Yobe and Adamawa?

I am fast loosing my respect for Joe Odumakin. She should avoid being bought over just like her sycophant husband.

ba7man:
I spent 2 days trying to get my PVC, my friends did.....I know lots of people that abandoned the comfort of their homes to go get their PVCs...........and they didn't do it because they felt GEJ is a great president, they did because they're tired of watching re-painted locomotives and a handful of new trains being hailed as the future, They're tired of making a loss whenever they make a business transaction, they're tired of watching power stations commissioned on TV in the midst of darkness, they're tired of watching the President defend corruption, tired of his wife making a fool of herself in public, tired of paying NEPA's crazy bills.

it is obvious this is going to be ur first voting experience . Don't worry you will know better when u get to the polling booth and unit. No need to argue about it ,the whole drama is just less than 14days from now. Good morning.

onatisi:
bros if opc,agberos,illiterate traders ,oil theives,ignorant ppl ,2 faced charlants ,psychophants vote for gej ,then he has won already!you have given gej over 70% of totall votes then .God bless you bro . You are wonderful.

So out of all these category of people you mentioned that will vote for Jonathan and give him 70percent,which group do you belong to?

I dunno why you Jonathanians always make ridiculous statements just to prove a point. Read what you wrote and see if it makes sense.