‘I Don’t Believe Buhari Is In Charge Of Nigeria’ – Wole Soyinka

Renowned Nigerian author, Wole Soyinka has reiterated that he doesn’t believe that President Buhari is in charge of Nigeria.

This is the second time the Noble laureate is making such a statement about Nigeria’s president and it comes after how bad things have gone in Nigeria.

The award-winning author made this recent submission when he appeared on Arise TV when he said;

“I have said this before and I wish to repeat this. Buhari does not appreciate the situation; he doesn’t understand. I see no evidence that he understands how grave the situation is. I have said it again and again, I don’t believe that he is in charge, because it is not possible in my view for a head of state, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, to say he is presiding over a nation and things get to this level.

Something is critically wrong within the leadership of this nation and that is where we civilians must come in. You must pick up this slack for our own situation, our own salvation, and this is one of the things we engaged in and that is why I resent this becoming individualised. Wole Soyinka is just another individual, just like another farmer, another student and I wanted people to understand this.

What happened to me with this incident is just typical of what is happening to millions of people all over the country and we cannot just sit still.”