Controversial singer, Eedris Abdulkareem has claimed that Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, isn’t criticising President Bola Tinubu despite the hardship in the country because of his personal relationship with the president.
He lamented that Soyinka who is known for his fierce criticisms of the past administration, has been unfairly quiet in the current dispensation.
“He [Wole Soyinka] has been very quiet lately. I know he has a good relationship with Tinubu so we know why,” Abdulkareem told SRTV.
Last year, when Prof. Soyinka was confronted over his silence in the face of the current hardship in the country, he stated that it was “too early” to judge President Tinubu’s administration and promised to assess it after a year in office.
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PulseNets reports that it has been almost a month since President Tinubu’s administration marked its one year in office but the Nobel laureate is yet to give his assessment of the administration as promised.
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