Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has insisted that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has failed.
According to him, the problems confronting Nigeria were beyond Buhari.
Soyinka stated this while playing host to students who paid him a visit on his 85th birthday.
The literary icon made it clear that while state governments differ in success rates, “central government has failed”.
“The problems of this nation are beyond the solution that can be
offered by this government, that’s the first admission; they have to
stop thinking in partisan government.
“There has always been a major problem with successive governments.
It’s easier on the state level to say that a particular state is
definitely doing better than another state. But the central government
has failed, that’s my view in the main.
“There is a minimal level which any government which has been elected
to power must achieve to be considered a true representative of the
people.
“Look at what’s happening today with the cattle all over the place,
that’s a security issue which should never have reached this level. That
singular act has resulted in hundreds of people being killed, farms
were taken over; it has wiped away a lot of the positive achievements of
the government.
“They need to confront this nation as a habitation of human beings
where very serious issues like economy, security, health, even threats
of secession come up every day and convoke at the same time, a national
conference, what I call an Indaba across all section which we will all
meet and debate everything, including the economy of this nation,”
Soyinka said.