{"id":81893,"date":"2021-06-09T07:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=81893"},"modified":"2021-06-09T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:52:24","slug":"they-have-right-to-secede-soyinka-backs-biafra-oduduwa-agitators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/they-have-right-to-secede-soyinka-backs-biafra-oduduwa-agitators\/","title":{"rendered":"They Have Right To Secede \u2013 Soyinka Backs Biafra, Oduduwa Agitators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said their is nothing wrong in the fight for sovereignty, especially by Biafra and Oduduwa agitators.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, the professor criticised the use of force against the agitators of self-determination, insisting it is the responsibility of the leadership to persuade them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, \u201cIt is time to think outside the box. That many, in so doing, find no landing place except dissolution, is not a crime. It is not peculiar to any peoples, and is embedded in the ongoing history of many, and not only on this continent.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cIt is their natural right as free citizens, not slaves of habit and indoctrination. Where disillusion rides high, sentiment tumbles earthwards, and the only question becomes: what can be salvaged? It thus remains the responsibility of leadership to persuade them, through both discourse and remedial action, that there are other options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attempted bullying is not a language of discourse, nor the facile ploy of tarring all birds with the same feather,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s statement about the genocidal threat, Soyinka said while he was not in support of those killing and destroying government\u2019s properties, the President\u2019s statement to \u2018deal with them in the language they understand\u2019 was wrong and \u2018tragically untimely.\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said their is nothing wrong in the fight for sovereignty, especially by Biafra and Oduduwa agitators. 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