President Muhammadu has been described as a born-again phenomenon in the Nigerian political landscape, by Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka.
In a recent interview with Zero Tolerance, a publication by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Soyinka said that he doesn’t believe in ‘born-againism’, but that Buhari may be the exception.
Soyinka added that Buhari may have accepted that he made some mistakes in the past, but has failed to apologise to the Nigerian people.
He said: “He (Buhari) has not brought himself round to apologise; if he had done that, I might have been less ambiguous about him. But I think from my findings about him, he is a born again phenomenon. If I am wrong, well, too bad. Though I don’t believe in ‘born-againism’ but I think this may be an exception.”
Speaking further, Soyinka also criticised the media for not challenging President Goodluck Jonathan to explain himself, when he said stealing was different from corruption.
“The media should have challenged President Jonathan to define what stealing is, when he said that stealing is not corruption. How can a public figure, an intelligent person like that, come out to tell the public that corruption is not stealing? Then you should have asked him, what then is corruption? The media should have challenged him.”
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