{"id":19201,"date":"2018-06-12T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19201"},"modified":"2018-06-12T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:59:11","slug":"wole-soyinka-exposes-buharis-hypocrisy-says-you-cant-honour-abiola-and-praise-his-tormentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19201","title":{"rendered":"WOLE SOYINKA EXPOSES BUHARI&#8217;S HYPOCRISY, SAYS &#8220;YOU CAN&#8217;T HONOUR ABIOLA AND PRAISE HIS TORMENTOR&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent show of \u201cadmiration\u201d for Sani Abacha, ex-military head of state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said Buhari cannot honour MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, while also \u201cpraising\u201d Abacha, his (Abiola\u2019s) \u201ctormentor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Abacha jailed Abiola in 1994 after he\u00a0<strong>declared himself<\/strong>\u00a0president, following the\u00a0<strong>annulment<\/strong>\u00a0of the 1993 election by the military government of Ibrahim Babangida.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent meeting in Aso Rock, Nigeria\u2019s seat of power, Buhari\u00a0<strong>had said<\/strong>: \u201cNo matter what opinion you have about Abacha, I agreed to work with him and the PTF road we did from here to Port Harcourt, to Onitsha, to Benin and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, speaking on Tuesday when Buhari\u00a0<strong>conferred<\/strong>\u00a0the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on Abiola, Soyinka said Abacha would have been standing trial at the International Criminal Court if he was still alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot honour Abiola in one breath and admire his tormentor in another breath,\u201d he told Buhari at the event which held in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He also proposed a \u201chall-of-shame\u201d award for past Nigerian leaders guilty of violent crimes against citizens.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, Buhari also conferred Babagana Kingibe, Abiola\u2019s running mate in the election; and Gani Fawehinmi, late human rights activist, with the Grand Commander of the Niger (GCON).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19048\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent show of \u201cadmiration\u201d for Sani Abacha, ex-military head of state. He said Buhari cannot honour MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, while also \u201cpraising\u201d Abacha, his (Abiola\u2019s) \u201ctormentor\u201d. Abacha jailed Abiola in 1994 after he\u00a0declared himself\u00a0president, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[4736,1310,4757],"class_list":["post-19201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-babagana-kingibe","tag-mko-abiola","tag-nobel-laureate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wole-soyinka.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4ZH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19202,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19201\/revisions\/19202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}