'I told him I won't support him' - Soyinka reveals last conversation with Atiku Abubakar

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has revealed a conversation he had with the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party years ago.

The elder statesman in a no-holds-barred interview on Arise TV said that he told the former vice president that he wouldn't be supporting his presidential bid because believed Nigeria needed an infusion of young blood.

“When Atiku came to my office in Ikeja, he came with Gbenga Daniel, my former governor. I said to him listen is about the time you people left the stage. Why don’t you just go away? We need an infusion of fresh blood into the system,” Soyinka said.

“For some people, maybe they read it as blood-letting, no I said, an infusion of fresh blood. I said so I cannot support you. I think your generation should really quit. He was not the only one. I then sought out the current President-elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and I gave him exactly the same message."

Meanwhile, Soyinka in a statement titled, “Media responsibility,’’ revealed that he warned Pete Obi of the Labour Party about the excesses of his supporters, otherwise known as ‘Obidients.’