In a blockbuster new interview, Nobel Laureate Wole
Soyinka has told The Guardian (UK) that until he told President Goodluck
Jonathan, the Nigerian leader did not know for an entire five days that
Morocco, a friendly but angry country, had withdrawn its ambassador
from Nigeria.
“He jumped up as if his seat was on fire,” he said of the moment
Jonathan learned of the situation, adding that it was that night that
the president made a public statement about it for the first time.
“So when I say that there is a force around, I know what I’m talking
about. There is a very sinister force in control and it is that sinister
cabal which is responsible for caging him in and showing him what they
think he should know about and keeping away from him things which are
not in their interest, and this for me is the most dangerous situation
that any nation can be in.”
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