Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka on Thursday disclosed that shortly after the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram, he reached out to former President Goodluck Jonathan to enquire about the situation but lamented that he was dismissed out rightly. He stated this while speaking on Thursday at a dialogue organized by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos.
He said the President told him to see the problem as personal and deal with it that way.
“I reached out to former President Jonathan, and protested, chiding him severely on his reaction over the abduction of the Chibok girls. I said to him; ‘you want to be accepted as a political leader, and you do not even accept as your duty to be there (Chibok), at the scene of the disaster?’
And I asked him, did you actually utter those words attributed to you? His response remains a riddle to me till today,” he said. "His exact words to me, not easily forgotten I assure you, were ‘Kampala tie niyen,’ meaning that is your own Kampala,” he added.
“He said the opposition was only using this to discredit his government, and precious days to have rescued the girls were lost,” he added.
