The Obi-Datti Movement has stated that internationally renowned novelist Prof Wole Soyinka erred by allegedly siding with the oppressors of the people, adding that the Labour Party’s Vice Presidential candidate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, is ready for the TV debate challenge called by the Nobel laureate.
Soyinka had challenged Baba-Ahmed to a Channels Television interview over the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election.
But reacting in an interview on Arise TV on Saturday, the Spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Movement, Prof Chris Nwakobia, stated that Peter Obi supporters, known as the Obidients, will be able to debate Soyinka.
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Daring Soyinka to attend the TV debate, Nwakobia said Baba-Ahmed would take up a debate with Soyinka.
“The least of the Obidients can take up that debate and do profoundly.
“I know Prof Wole Soyinka. I know he will not go for that debate because the point is that history is replete with facts and figures,” he added.
He claimed Soyinka would not attend the discussion because the Nobel laureate erred by side with the alleged oppressors of the people.
While defending Baba-claim Ahmed’s that swearing in Tinubu would be illegal because the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate did not receive one-quarter of the votes in Abuja, the Obi-Datti Movement spokesperson stated that Soyinka cannot come out for a debate with any member of the Obi-Datti Movement.
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He said, “Do you know that some of us see him as our mentor because he understands the fact that disobedience upon an unjust law is indeed the greatest respect for law.
“In 1965 or so, with a gun, he invaded a radio station and refused the announcement of Akintola as the winner of an election. History is such a beautiful spectacle, and I implore my egbon and the esteemed laureate to oblige the young people who are saying that on the mandate given to Peter Obi to stand.
“When those who are merchants in electoral larceny took their mandate with hot coal, they can’t close their hands because we are going to take it in the court.”
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