Wole Soyinka and Peter Obi
Nigerian playwright and novelist, Wole Soyinka, has opined that the Labour Party (LP) knows that their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, did not win the February 25 election, but are hell-bent on forcing “lies” that Obi won the polls.
The Nobel laureate said this on Wednesday, September 13, while speaking at an event in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
“This recent election – two things happened first of all. One party took over the labour movement, which is not my favourite movement, and then it became a regional party. Whereas it was a marvellous breach into the established two camps. Peter Obi achieved something remarkable there, that he broke that mould. However, he did not win the election.
I can say categorically that Peter Obi’s party came third not even second and the leadership knew it but they want to do what we call in Yoruba ‘gbajue’, that is force of lies.”he said