Again, Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has berated the Obidient Movement, supporters of Peter Obi of the Labour Party, for their role in the recently concluded 2023 general elections.
Politics Nigeria reports Wole Soyinka, speaking at the launch of his book, “The Putin Files: Excursions Around The Ideology Of Pain,” maintained that the Obidients were fascist.
Responding to a lawyer and poet Ogaga Ifowodo’s question about why he called Obidients fascists, Soyinka who spoke on Friday, used the 2020 EndSARS protest as an analogy of a struggle spawned by pure truth, describing it as one of the most successful movements in Nigeria.
The Playwright Soyinka noted that he supported the EndSARS protest and even addressed some protesters when leaving Lagos for Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Comparing the EndSARS protest with the Obidient Movement, Soyinka pointed out that what the Obidients were trying to do was “the mobilization of youth to defend an untruth.”
Soyinka likened most actions of the Obidient Movement to former president Muhammadu Buhari, “pushing people to kill innocent serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by claiming he was cheated out of an election.”
The Daily Crucible recalls that the Obidients did not take it kindly when they were characterized as fascists and hordes of them criticized the octogenarian on social media in May this year.
Soyinka said long before the election; some people had schemed to tilt the country towards having an interim government.
“That tendency had been apparent even before the election.
“So some of those who thought they were being radical, they were being ‘mumu’ (foolish) and playing the script of others,” Soyinka declared.
