{"id":5879,"date":"2015-08-29T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2015-08-29T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T21:16:44","slug":"soyinka-to-feature-obasanjo-in-new-book-the-republic-of-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5879","title":{"rendered":"Soyinka to feature Obasanjo in new book, \u2018The Republic of Liars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Prof.-Wole-Soyinka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5319\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Prof.-Wole-Soyinka.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Wole Soyinka\" width=\"158\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Delta-newsroom-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5183\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Delta-newsroom-logo.png\" alt=\"Delta newsroom logo\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has disclosed his intention to feature former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo prominently in his new book, \u2018The Republic of Liars\u2019.<br \/>\nSoyinka who stated this while responding to questions at an event tagged: \u201cAn evening with Wole Soyinka\u201d in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Friday, described Obasanjo as a shameless liar whom he has no respect for.<br \/>\nThe event organised by the telecommunication giant, Globacom, was to celebrate Soyinka\u2019s literary feat and the launch of Glo Literary Prize for Undergraduate Students.<br \/>\nSoyinka said even though he appreciated the fact that Obasanjo as an individual is entitled to his opinion about him, he is nonetheless bothered because \u201cnobody has respect for a liar\u201d.<br \/>\nSoyinka, while responding to a question asking him to respond to the view represented of him by Obasanjo in his memoir, \u2018My Watch\u2019 also borrowed the language of Oyetunde Aboyade who described Obasanjo as an \u201cEconomic Illiterate\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cObasanjo is entitled to his opinion like everybody. But the question is: who respects the opinion of a liar? And I can prove he is a shameless liar. Like an economist once told him to his face. I mean Oyetunde Aboyade who told Obasanjo to his face that he is an economic illiterate.<br \/>\n\u201cSo if an economic illiterate calls me political illiterate, no problem. Even in the book, he told the first lie when said he deplored liars. Anybody like Obasanjo saying he never plotted third term in office, who even as a writer, I know the word to call that.<br \/>\n\u201cI have been talking to my publisher lately on a new work. It is titled tentatively: \u2018The Republic of Liars\u2019 and Obasanjo featured in it prominently. This is the last I would say about it,\u201d Soyinka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has disclosed his intention to feature former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo prominently in his new book, \u2018The Republic of Liars\u2019. Soyinka who stated this while responding to questions at an event tagged: \u201cAn evening with Wole Soyinka\u201d in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Friday, described Obasanjo as a shameless liar whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5319,"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":[182,290],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-olusegun-obasanjo","tag-prof-wole-soyinka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Prof.-Wole-Soyinka.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1wP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}