Obi visited the Nobel Laureate<\/a> at his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence on Sunday. <\/p>\nSoyinka, however, termed as inappropriate and diversionary media reports that the visit was for reconciliation.<\/p>\n
Soyinka spoke in a statement on Monday titled, \u201cA visitation, and the allure of \u201creconciliation. \u2019\u2019 Obi in a tweet after the visit noted among other things that he cherished the Sunday visit which was intended to \u201cerase the needless misconceptions about the relationship between the great icon and the Obidient family. \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The Nobel laureate had, on Channels TV and later on Arise TV, in April expressed displeasure at the manner the vice presidential candidate of the LP, Datti Baba-Ahmed, attempted to dictate to the Supreme Court during an interview on Channels TV over the election won by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n
But the \u2018Obidients,\u2019 a term denoting Obi\u2019s supporters, trolled Soyinka online, abusing him and an ex-deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, who in a tweet described Soyinka as a phenomenon that \u201cunlettered and uncultured people may not fully understand in an age of lazy social media in which many don\u2019t read or think deep.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Nobel laureate in two separate statements in April, \u201cFascism on course,\u2019\u2019 and \u201cMedia responsibility,\u201d responded, saying that the seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena had evidently matured.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the reports about Obi\u2019s visit, the essayist stated, \u201cBefore it gains traction and embarks on a life of its own, I wish to state clearly that the word \u201creconciliation,\u201d inserted into some reports of Peter Obi\u2019s visit to me yesterday, Sunday, May 7, is a most inappropriate, and diversionary invocation.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cLet me clarify: I know the entity known as Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party. I can relate to him. I know and can relate to the Labour Party on whose platform he contested elections. There are simply no issues to reconcile between those two entities and myself. However, I do not know, and am unable to relate to something known as the \u201cObidient\u201d or \u201cObidient Family.\u201d Thus, albeit in a different vein, any notion of reconciliation, or even relations \u2013 positive, negative or indifferent \u2013 with such a spectral emanation is simply grasping at empty air.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring that meeting, attended by two other individuals only, the word \u201creconciliation\u201d was never bruited, neither in itself nor in any other form. It simply did not arise. By contrast, there were expressions of \u201cburden of leadership,\u201d \u201cresponsibility,\u201d \u201capology,\u201d \u201cpleading,\u201d \u201cformal dissociation from the untenable,\u201d all the way to the \u201ctragic ascendancy of ethnic cleavage,\u201d especially under such ironic, untenable circumstances.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The elder statesman further said that the discussions were frank, and creative, reiterating that the notion of reconciliation was clearly non-applicable and never raised.<\/p>\n
Soyinka stated, \u201cThe following should be understood, but never underestimated. What remains ineradicable from that weekend of orgiastic rave in the social media was the opening up of the dark, putrid recesses in the national psyche that we like to pretend do not exist. It invited \u2013 into minds seeking a grasp on reality \u2013 gruesome variations on images from Dante\u2019s Purgatorio. A fathomless pit was exposed, at the bottom of which one glimpsed a throng of the damned, writhing in competitive lust for the largest of the gangrenous ladles in a diabolical broth. To peek over the edge of that pit for a prolonged spell was to turn giddy, with a risk of falling into the tureen of inhuman pus. To attempt to navigate one\u2019s way, however gingerly, along a mat spread across the infernal abyss, is an invitation to moral suicide.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
According to him, for the serious minded, he calls attention to essays he offered on the theme of reconciliation based on truth, and the ethical imperative of restitution.<\/p>\n
The Nobel laureate said, \u201cThere will be further elaborations forthcoming in Democracy Primer III \u2013 Bookcraft\u2019s Intervention series, now brought forward for publication on June 12, the watershed extorted from the current regime as the nation\u2019s Democracy Day.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He noted that if from here on, he complied with entreaties from several valued, genuinely concerned directions, and ignored new provocations, however vile, it was only because he also approved of American boxer, Mohammed Ali\u2019s strategy of rope-a-dope, where blind menace was left flailing hopelessly at the disdainful manifest of truth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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