A staunch supporter of Peter Obi and the Labour Party popularly known as Obidient has taken a swipe at Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka.
In a post shared on social media, an X user identified as @firstladyship, shared a photo with the inscription “Jonathan worse than Nebuchadnezzar – Soyinka,” on the front page of the Punch Newspaper on December 3, 2014.
Reacting to the photo, @firstladyship bemoaned Soyinka’s recent outburst about Nigerian youths.
She acknowledged that while Prof Soyinka is a respected figure, he has become a chauvinist, who fails to understand that today's youths are different and cannot be manipulated.
Her comment was prompted by his criticisms of Peter Obi and Obidients, as well as his recent award from President Bola Tinubu, naming the National Theatre after him.
The X user mentioned that Obidients are here to stay, shape, and change the country. She added that Soyinka should either support them or stay away but should refrain from imposing his moral standards on the youths.
She wrote, “It’s so sad that a man we once respected has lost the youth demographic.
Professor Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday came with mixed reactions.
People like us would have paid glorious tributes to the man he once was; but “the man died!”
Reuben Abati & his obvious bias and hatred for the “moral auctoritas” the Obidents became, won’t change the fact that Wole has come to a certain “unexpected” end.
NIGERIA IS CHANGING, and everyone must change with it. You either toe the line of morality, or you’ll be marooned.
Wole is a literary giant no doubt, but a bigot nonetheless. He took a regional position (since before that election).
Konji is not a moral man, you of all people should have known that. We are not his children; nothing gives him the right to tell anyone what to do.
Nothing gives anyone the right to talk to us like that. Thirty years from now, their generation will be no more. It’ll be left to new kids on the block like us to tell the Nigerian Story the way it ought to be told.
The pen is indeed a weapon. Good or bad, the pen is the only weapon we know.
The Obidients are here to stay. Nothing you will do will ever compromise our standards. It goes without saying.
We are the morality of a Nigeria that no longer exists. Our hope is that someday & in some ways, our voices will trump the brutality; an end to moral turpitude.
We are here to shape & change Nigeria. How we do it, is not your business.
Here his the post.
It’s so sad that a man we once respected has lost the youth demography.
— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) July 15, 2024
Professor Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday came with mixed reactions.
People like us would have paid glorious tributes to the man he once was; but “the man died!”
Reuben Abati & his obvious bias & hatred for… pic.twitter.com/7rZewynAvb
