Peter Obi Visits Soyinka One Month After Playwright ‘Clash’ With Obidients
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Sunday, paid a courtesy visit to the Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka.
The visit is coming one month after the playwright clashed with the Obidients movement, a nickname adopted by Obi’s supporters.
Soyinka, who faulted voter suppression witnessed in some polling units in Lagos, had also accused Obidients of fascism who don’t ‘entertain corrective criticism’.
The wordsmith made the statement when he featured as a guest on Channels Television and later on Arise TV on April 8.
Hours after his scathing remark, Soyinka was serially trolled and abused online by angry youths who identified with the former governor of Anambra State.
Two weeks ago, Obi disclosed on Politics Today, a popular programme on Channels Television, that he was sad about the exchange, maintaining that he revered Soyinka as a father.
He also defended his Obidient movement when he reiterated that they were angry youths who had been deprived by a system that is meant to care for them.
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