Intellect Doesn’t Give You Right To Insult Anybody – Baba-Ahmed Tells Soyinka
The Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed has said Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka have no right to insult anybody given his intellectual capacity.
Baba-Ahmed’s reply follows Soyinka’s comment that Peter Obi, LP’s presidential candidate, was unfit to lead the country.
He stated this in an interview with Arise Television.
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Recall that Soyinka had said that Obi’s failure to reign on his supporters attacking others with opposing views online was a pointer that he is unfit to lead a country like Nigeria.
The literary icon also accused Obi of encouraging ‘Obidients’ to attack him and others with opposing views online.
Reacting to this, Baba-Ahmed said what Soyinka was doing was an attempted distraction, adding that he would not join issues with him.
Baba-Ahmed said that he could say a few things to Soyinka that could destroy him for good but he wouldn’t say that.
He said, “You see, intellect doesn’t give you the right to insult anybody. I remember this Soyinka insulting late General Abacha, insulting him to the core that he was daft.
“Nothing gives him the right to do that. Abacha was not an academic. He was a soldier for God’s sake. And a good soldier in his own way in his own right.
“I beg you, let’s push Soyinka and his likes aside; we have better things to talk about. Nobel Laureates are loved and cherished by their people. Soyinka keeps getting insulted, and it is his responsibility to maintain his dignity and respect, not Peter Obi’s.
“I could say a few things to Wole Soyinka that could destroy him for good, but I wouldn’t say that,” he said.
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