Buhari Should Disclose His Health Status To Nigerians–Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose his health status to Nigerians. Soyinka who spoke to reporters last weekend at the sidewalk of the Paris Book Fair felt there was nothing unusual about  Buhari doing so.

The AFP quoted him as saying:  “He’s ill, there’s no question, and I wish for heaven’s sake that people in public positions would just be honest. Illness is part of our existence. Buhari owes it to the nation and I don’t know why he and his advisors are being so coy about it.”

Soyinka also made a veiled reference to the Nigerian separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra and their struggle for self-determination: “It’s not the real estate for me that defines a nation or a people, no, it’s a history, a culture. What is a crime  within an artificial entity like Nigeria?  You have states being created which are not viable. I cannot accept the notion that people have a right to kill other people because they want to assert their identity. It doesn’t cost anything to recognise it.”