Wole Soyinka Reveals Why Nigeria Can’t Remain “Together”

Nigerian playwright, novelist and poet, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka better known as Wole Soyinka has reacted to the recent happenings in the Nigeria, says ‘the country has no future if it continues to move in the direction it is headed’.

The Nobel Laureate said this during an interview he had with Arise TV, where he was quizzed whether he sees a future for the country.

According to him, unless the  Federal Government puts its foot on the ground and decentralise the system of governance, nothing but disaster would befall it.

He also said that Nigeria is on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve it.

In his words;

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“Not if it continues this way. Not if it fails to decentralize. Some people use the word restructure, some people use the word…whatever. Not if it fails to decentralize.

“If Nigeria fails to decentralise and I mean, decentralise as fast as possible, manifestly not rhetoric, then Nigeria cannot stay together.

“Again this is not Wole Soyinka saying this. Generals have said it. Everybody has said; ex-heads of state have said it; analysts have said; economists have said it and that’s what is happening to the people on the streets; that’s why they’re moving; that’s why they’re demonstrating; that’s why they’re defying even threats from the police; from the government ‘if you demonstrate, you’re traitors, we’ll deal with you…we’ll speak to you in language which you’ll understand’.

“It doesn’t work with anybody any longer. Because the nation is on a suicide slide and the people feel that they do not deserve that kind of suicidal plunge and they have the right to say ‘sorry o, I’m getting out of this plane before it nose-dives.”