I CAUTIONED PETER OBI OVER HIS FOLLOWERS EXCESSES - WOLE SOYINKA
This was mentioned by Soyinka on Tuesday in a statement headlined "Media duty."
The senior statesman said that his recent interview with Channels Television was misrepresented and that his comments were changed such that they were no longer recognisable.
On Monday of last week, the TV station aired a one and a half-hour interview with Soyinka.
According to Soyinka, he insisted repeatedly throughout the interview that the elections' outcome was still up in the air since "that omission renders the complete message tendentious!"
"My rejection of fascism is nothing new. On three occasions, I was able to send a message to Peter Obi that if he lost the election, it would be his followers who lost it for him. It was depressing to watch his lieutenant, a crucially positioned voice of a movement that has 'broken the mould', threaten the totality of social existence.
"Whatever our ideological leaning, is Donald Trump the ideal template for a burgeoning democracy in the nation?"
He stated that he also remained concerned by the alleged complaint by him of people not following "instructions.
"If words are garbled in recording, the speaker can be reached for clarification - else, simply leave out the unclear section completely to avoid misrepresentation. After all, piecemeal transmission is legitimate proceeding, as long as a part is not presented as the whole.
"I am not a member of the Labour Party, so how can giving "instructions' become my role? Like a number of others. I have admittedly contributed to the making of this moment - going back several years - and it is painful to have the followers of such a movement, send it slithering backwards and down the fascistic slope, " Soyinka said
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