Obasanjo and Soyinka, both in their 80's, have had a long
love/hate relationship...always coming for each other at the
slightest opportunity. The latest person to come for the other
is Obasanjo.
Speaking to Channels TV's 'Book Club'
yesterday, where he was interviewed about his controversial
book 'My Watch' where he also trashed Soyinka, Obasanjo
said what he wrote about the literary icon in his book was
purely his view and that Soyinka did not have to agree with
him.
“Wole Soyinka is a gifted man. I have always
acknowledged that but he is a bad politician and I
have also always said that. That is my own point of
view. He may agree with it, he may not agree with it.
But having said that, I also, in my book, bring out Wole
Soyinka as I see him and that’s my own judgment;
that’s my own perspective of him. He may agree, he
may not agree but anybody can bring out his own
perspective of me. For instance, I know that if I want
somebody to give me the best wine, one of the people I
will go to is Wole Soyinka and I know he has a taste
for good wine and I said that in the book.” he said.
Continue to see what OBJ wrote about Soyinka that
ticked him off
“For Wole, no one can be good, nor can anything be
spot-on politically except that which emanates from
him or is ordained by him. His friends and loved ones
will always be right and correct, no matter what they
do or fail to do. He is surely a better wine connoisseur
and a more successful aparo (guinea fowl) hunter than
a political critic."