Nigeria Under Buhari On Suicide Plunge, Everybody Is Getting Out — Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has once again reiterated his
stance that Nigeria would not remain together except there is
decentralisation of power.

Soyinka stated that Nigeria was on a suicide plunge and people
were demonstrating and defying the police and the government
because they wanted to get out of the system.

In an interview with Arise TV, Soyinka stated that there is no
hope of Nigeria continuing together as one nation if the Federal
Government fails to do the needful.

The foremost playwright noted that Nigeria could not continue as
one country unless it was decentralised as a matter of urgency.

Soyinka said, “Some people use the word restructure, some people
use the word, whatever, not if it fails to decentralise. If Nigeria
fails to decentralise and I mean, decentralise as fast as possible,
manifestly not rhetoric, then Nigeria cannot stay together.

“Again this is not Wole Soyinka saying this. Generals have said
it. Everybody has said; ex-heads of state have said it; analysts
have said; economists have said it and that’s what is happening to
the people on the streets; that’s why they’re moving; that’s why
they’re demonstrating; that’s why they’re defying even threats from
the police; from the government ‘if you demonstrate, you’re
traitors, we’ll deal with you…we’ll speak to you in language which
you’ll understand’.

“It doesn’t work with anybody any longer. Because the nation is
on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve
that kind of suicidal plunge and they have the right to say ‘sorry
o, I’m getting out of this plane before it nose-dives.”

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has once again reiterated his
stance that Nigeria would not remain together except there is
decentralisation of power.

Soyinka stated that Nigeria was on a suicide plunge and people
were demonstrating and defying the police and the government
because they wanted to get out of the system.

In an interview with Arise TV, Soyinka stated that there is no
hope of Nigeria continuing together as one nation if the Federal
Government fails to do the needful.

The foremost playwright noted that Nigeria could not continue as
one country unless it was decentralised as a matter of urgency.

Soyinka said, “Some people use the word restructure, some people
use the word, whatever, not if it fails to decentralise. If Nigeria
fails to decentralise and I mean, decentralise as fast as possible,
manifestly not rhetoric, then Nigeria cannot stay together.

“Again this is not Wole Soyinka saying this. Generals have said
it. Everybody has said; ex-heads of state have said it; analysts
have said; economists have said it and that’s what is happening to
the people on the streets; that’s why they’re moving; that’s why
they’re demonstrating; that’s why they’re defying even threats from
the police; from the government ‘if you demonstrate, you’re
traitors, we’ll deal with you…we’ll speak to you in language which
you’ll understand’.

“It doesn’t work with anybody any longer. Because the nation is
on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve
that kind of suicidal plunge and they have the right to say ‘sorry
o, I’m getting out of this plane before it nose-dives.”