For many years there has been no lost love between former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka. In his new book titled 'Interventions: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie – A Personal Odyssey in the Republic of Liars' presented in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday, Soyinka criticised Obasanjo and described the former president as an overgrown child of circumstance.


Soyinka while speaking said he owed it a responsibility to fundamentally respond to lies that Obasanjo allegedly told against him in his latest biography, titled, My Watch, described in Interventions as Three-Carat Watch. Soyinka, in the book also critically took on the likes of former Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; and veteran critic, Prof. Chinweizu, wrote, quoting a Yoruba proverb, “The child that swears his mother will not sleep must also prepare for a prolonged, sleepless infancy. So, let it be with Okikiola, the overgrown child of circumstance.


"I brainstormed with him over meals both when he was military Head of State – in Dodan Barracks and in his home, Ota – for some time after he left office and early in Aso Rock at his ‘second coming.’ Today, it is a different situation. If he offered to host me, I would wait until he had first swallowed a morsel from the same dish.


“I had fully attuned myself to the fact that our Owu retiree soldier and prolific author is an infliction that those of us who share the same era and nation space must learn to endure. However, it does appear to me that there is no end to this individual’s capacity for infantile mischief, and for needless, mind-boggling provocations, such as his recent ‘literary’ intrusion on my peace."


The Nobel Laureate questioned the godliness to which Obasanjo professed: “Our author invokes God tirelessly, without provocation, without necessity and without justification, perhaps preemptively, but does he really believe in such an entity? Does our home-bred Double-O-Seven believe in anything outside his own Omnipotence?



"Could he possibly have mistaken the Christian exhortation – ‘Watch and Pray’ – for his own private inclination to ‘Watch and Prey? This is a seasoned predator on others’ achievements. He preys on their names, their characters, their motivations, their true lives; preys on gossip and preys on contributions to collective undertakings – even preys on their identities, substituting his own where possible.”



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Lol

Two old foes that fail to bury there grudges

O yes he is, I concur.

Until the likes of OBJ leave our national space for new generation, we will continue to crawl. We have buhari from same fabric now as president. What a retrogression!

Hehehehehehehe.
Imagine OBJ dy play d role of 007

These old men should stop deceiving themselves, they are supposed to be examples to younger ones but instead of being good examples they are bad one. They keep teaching us to abuse ourselves instead of being friend.

Wole Soyinka is no longer an elder in Egbaland he sold his birthright to Gbenga Daniel when the latter was governor.

Àgbà yín kò to ilé

Obj is a beast. He will end up being a fool also like the dullard

watch and prey ke? that says it all

Click like if u think Soyinka should be Obasanjos wife or share the other way round

Old talkatives

ephemm:
Wole Soyinka is no longer an elder in Egbaland he sold his birthright to Gbenga Daniel when the latter was governor.

Àgbà yín kò to ilé

Little wonder OBJ referred to him as a better wine connoisseur and a more successful Aparo Hunter

BTW, I am not supporting OBJ, they're birds of a feather.

I want to be like both OBJ and Soyinka together. But to be like OBJ seems like being a devil..

I wish I cld be one

Obj and Soyinka......still can't get the cause of their rancor.
Publicity stunt? No,cause they are both popular already.
Means to sell their books? Maybe, cos people will want to buy My Watch so as to know what Obj wrote about Soyinka and vice versa.

If you have any other reason, lets know.

oloyedayo:
These old men should stop deceiving themselves, they are supposed to be examples to younger ones but instead of being good examples they are bad one. They keep teaching us to abuse ourselves instead of being friend.

If you are bad you probably learned it from somewhere and not from these two men.....you should be happy that someone who knew Obasanjo well is telling him some home truths.

These two elders are nothing but a disgrace to Egba land and Yoruba nation. Soyinka could still command some respect at least, but that Owu man is "agba iya" patapata. Those assertions by Soyinka perfectly describe Baba Iyabo.

Demmocrats:
Two old foes that fail to bury there grudges

Did you say two old fools?

No, I think one old fool, one wise man.

Don't ask me which is which.