Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has declared that he will not be pressured into publicly assessing President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
Speaking on <\/span>Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief<\/span> on Monday, Soyinka emphasized that he would only evaluate the government when he deemed it necessary, not under external pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n The literary icon was responding to critics who accused him of failing to fulfill his promise to give an opinion on Tinubu\u2019s government one year after its inauguration.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPeople should stop trying to work on my timetable for me. I have not swallowed an alarm clock,\u201d Soyinka said. \u201cI don\u2019t see why I should put my alarm on and say, \u2018One year has passed, now I must make an assessment,\u2019 if there is nothing I feel like talking about and if I am busy elsewhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He further stressed that assessing a government was a collective responsibility, highlighting the efforts of other activists and commentators.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis business of \u2018you haven\u2019t come to do this,\u2019 I don\u2019t understand it. Other people are doing the same; this is a collective effort. The Falanas speak consistently. The Baiyewus speak consistently. The Sowores come out and try to lead demonstrations. It\u2019s a collective effort,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Soyinka questioned why he was being singled out for a public assessment, noting that he had never followed such a pattern with past administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe one-year mark means you have a right to ask, and I have a responsibility to respond when you call me on certain issues. But if you expect me to call a press conference and say, \u2018One year is up, let\u2019s make an assessment,\u2019 I\u2019d ask\u2014did I do that with Jonathan? Did I do that with Buhari? Did I do that with Obasanjo? Did I do that with anybody? So why is it expected of me now?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He concluded by stating that while he remains open to speaking on national issues, his commentary will be on his own terms.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has declared that he will not be pressured into publicly assessing President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,193,866],"class_list":["post-23062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-soyinka","tag-tinubu","tag-wole-soyinka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23064,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23062\/revisions\/23064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}