Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that the Nigerian military is planning to institute an interim government with the “veneer of civilian structure.”
Professor Soyinka also said that Nigeria is “aspiring very hard to become a failed state."
The renowned playwright made these statements during an interview with German platform, Deutshe Welle.
“Ex-military
officers and security officers are trying to push aside the political
contestants and use the unrest as an excuse to establish an interim
government,” he said.
“The nature of the
interim government wants to pretend it's not really a military
intervention. A few political leaders, well-known civilians, want to
give the veneer of civilian structure, but basically it’s a kind of
political intervention,” Soyinka added.
The writer also spoke on Boko Haram
and the abducted Chibok girls, who have been missing for almost a year,
saying that there’s little hope that the children will be found.
“It
will take a generation at least to exterminate this phenomenon
altogether. The military would not have had to cope with Boko Haram on
this level if the proper action had been taken at the right time. This
is the biggest the problem I have with the Jonathan government,” Soyinka said.
He also spoke on the recent comments attributed to First Lady, Patience Jonathan saying:
"What she said was totally unacceptable. I no longer regard her as the First Lady of Nigeria.”
Mrs Jonathan has been severely criticized for urging her supporters to stone members of the opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC
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