Professor Wole Soyinka has affirmed that the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to address insecurity issues in the country has wiped away positive achievements of his administration.
As claimed by the nobel laureate of literature, the problems confronting Nigeria were beyond Buhari.
Soyinka declared this while playing host to students who paid him a visit on his 85th birthday.
Wole Soyinka made it clear that there is a performance gap in success rates of state governments but the central government has failed.
“The problems of this nation are beyond the solution that can be offered by this government, that’s the first admission; they have to stop thinking in partisan government.
“There has always been a major problem with successive governments. It’s easier on the state level to say that a particular state is definitely doing better than another state. But the central government has failed, that’s my view in the main.
“There is a minimal level which any government which has been elected to power must achieve to be considered a true representative of the people.
“Look at what’s happening today with the cattle all over the place, that’s a security issue which should never have reached this level. That singular act has resulted in hundreds of people being killed, farms were taken over; it has wiped away a lot of the positive achievements of the government.
“They need to confront this nation as a habitation of human beings where very serious issues like economy, security, health, even threats of secession come up every day and convoke at the same time, a national conference, what I call an Indaba across all section which we will all meet and debate everything, including the economy of this nation,” Soyinka said.
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