I Did Not Pay Glowing Tribute To Tinubu Says Soyinka

In a swift reaction, Nigerian nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has debunked reports he paid a tribute to APC leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
 Soyinka had been quoted as saying that he admired Tinubu because he saved Nigeria from becoming a one-party state.
“I do not admire Tinubu because he is a saint. I do not admire Tinubu because he is from the South. I do not admire Tinubu because he is a Yoruba. If I want saints, I will proceed to heaven, not on earth. Every human is fallible. I admire Tinubu because he saved Nigeria from the danger of falling into a one-party state," the tribute had said.
“He has nurtured many renowned national successors. He listened to the voice of the masses to surrender his personal ambition at the most critical moment. He strategically terminated the PDP’s 60-year ambition in 16 years," part of it added.
 Soyinka however, in a statement signed on Thursday, wondered why people continued to use his name to spread falsehood.
 He asked members of the public to be careful about the things they read on the Internet.
 He said, “It is difficult to prescribe for the sort of mind that finds itself so inadequate that it must foist its opinions on others, and with such confident sense of impunity. Kindly assist me in letting the public know that I am not in any way connected with the publication.
“I can only yet again recommend my recent ‘occasional’ publication, ‘The Republic of Liars,’ to the public as a cautionary tract, while the growing population of victims await the routine descent of the full operational wrath of Internet policing on all impudent impersonators.”

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