NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described as National embarrassment the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration to disobey court orders particularly on the cases involving Shi’ite leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzakky and erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).
Soyinka, who spoke at a summit in Lagos also called for Nigeria’s restructuring saying “it is the only way out of the present challenges against the unity of the country.
Soyinka, in his presentation said “Forgiveness is a virtue. Although, I have the same temperament with my late friend, Tai Solarin, but it is a national embarrassment that our President has refused to obey laws. Citizens should not be the one to choose the laws to obey. “We want the government to understand that they are part of the community and have been given a mission of carrying out the will of the people. When we talk about governance, we are talking about an instrument for the execution of people’s policy.
On restructuring, the Nobel laureate said “One way of stopping the bloodbath is to reconfigure the nation saying states must be given maximum control over their resources.
“There are some, who prefer to grow rice, there are others who prefer to grow religion and we know where religion has taken us today. Some people will like to say, it is not really religion that has gotten us to where we are, I agree with you; but some people have manipulated religion to suit their purpose. The effect of those who manipulated it is disastrous. If some people prefer to grow rice, and others to grow Sharia, then, both sides should be given the means to develop.
