Renowned writer and nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Friday, August 28, 2015 lampooned former President Olusegun Obasanjo, describing him as an indescribable liar.
Speaking during an event organised by Globacom tagged ‘An evening with Wole Soyinka’, Soyinka, when responding to Obasanjo’s statement in his book” “My Watch” where Obasanjo said he (Soyinka) is good at hunting and wines but a political illiterate, Soyinka Obasanjo is a liar whose opinion he does not respect.
Soyinka said: “Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. But the question is: ‘Who respects the opinion of a liar?’
“I can spend the whole night proving that he is a liar. Obasanjo was once described by an economist, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, as an economic illiterate. They nearly ‘went into blow’ that night. It was Prof. Mabogunje who separated them.
“So, if an economic illiterate calls somebody a political illiterate, no problem at all.
“In ‘ My Watch’, Obasanjo told the first lie when he said he deplored lies. Anybody who said he never plotted to have an unconstitutional third term in office, even as a writer, I need a word to describe him.”
