Nigerian Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has stated that he has no respect for ex president Olusegun Obasanjo, terming him an “indescribable liar.”
Soyinka carpeted the former president on Friday night when he was responding to questions during a programme tagged: ‘An evening with Wole Soyinka’, organised by Globacom.
Obasanjo in his book ‘My Watch’, had noted that Soyinka is good at hunting and wines but is a political illiterate.
Responding, Soyinka said that he was hardly bothered because he believed that Obasanjo was a liar.
“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.”
The former President and the Nobel laureate have been in a running battle taking swipes at each other over a lingering issue between them.
