Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the most hypocritical leader Nigeria ever produced. Speaking at the award ceremony of the International Press Institute (IPI), Soyinka vowed to expose Obasanjo in Lagos on July 3. Responding to a question from a participant on his constant criticism of Abacha, even in death, Soyinka said he was not after a particular leader but he couldn’t spare Abacha given his antecedent as a corrupt and brutal dictator.
“If I’m walking on the streets and I see a statue raised in honour of a *torturer, a murderer and thief* so recognised by the entire world that we are still chasing his loot, his loot is still surfacing all over the world… and then I’m driving on the streets and I see a structure in honour of that person, I have the responsibility to tell this President you cannot be serious about corruption if you build monuments in remembrance of that leader,” he said.
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