The daughter of late dictator, Sani Abacha, Gumsu, has attacked Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, pointing out that she was a lover of books written by Soyinka at her younger age but now, she finds Soyinka’s comment as “foolish, stupid and insignificant”.
She was reacting to the recent
statement by the World-acclaimed writer that he rejected the centenary awards
offered by President Goodluck Jonathan to celebrate the 100 years of the
amalgamation of Nigeria because Abacha was also included in the list. Soyinka
described the decoration of Abacha with a National honour as an insult.
Gumsu took to her facebook page to
react to the statement, stating that “someone tell Soyinka I liked his books
when I was younger but that is where it ends. Today I reject his stupid,
foolish insignificant statement”.
In a related event, Sodiq Abacha,
one of the sons of the late dictator also berated Soyinka for criticizing
successive governments without proffering solution or offering himself for an
elective position.
His open letter shared by Gumsu,
reads in part:
“Sir, I believe brilliance is not
perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at
that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn’t this man just contest to
be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr
Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria’s woes. To my utter
surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a
great deal of it unaccounted for. “Oh my God! In the end he turned out to be
just the same as everybody else” were my next thoughts. My hopes for you, all
ended up in great disappointment”.
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