by Alexander O. Onukwue

It is hardly a secret that Professor Wole Soyinka was pleased with the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan by Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 elections.

The Nobel Laureate was not dry with stinging words about the former administration, raising issues about corruption and inefficiency of Governance severally. In Buhari’s reign, though, it has not been all rosy.

He has acknowledged that the country has been on the ropes for a while now, only technically exiting the recession by a fraction above half a percent growth in GDP. Soyinka does not want Buhari to put his health through the rigours of another campaign season in 2019, so is there someone else in his books that would fit into the old General’s shoes?

The troubles he has with those already calling for a second term for the President may be due his thought process that such calls are a distraction to the Government from carrying out its duties in the mean time. That said, it also re-affirms, to some degree, that he has probably made his mind up that Buhari should in fact not be thinking about 2019 at all.

If that is so, it is reasonable to imagine that Professor Soyinka is trying to make up his mind on whom to support when the time comes: can the enemy of his enemy become his friend, or should he join the Whatsapp group and add more substance to the behind-the-scenes schemes to encourage the VP?

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