Buhari can’t deal with Nigeria’s problems- Soyinka

Ebun Francis|

Nobel laureate and elder statesman, Wole Soyinka, has called for a national conference to debate the Nigerians situation as the challenges facing the nation are beyond what the Buhari administration can handle.

The respected Nigerian literary icon who made the assertion when some students paid him a visit on his 85th birthday urged the government to shun ethnic pandering and focus on delivering good governance to the Nigerians.

“The problems of this nation are beyond the solution that can be offered by this government, that’s the first admission; they have to stop thinking in partisan government.”

“There has always been a major problem with successive governments. It’s easier on the state level to say that a particular state is definitely doing better than another state. But the central government has failed, that’s my view in the main.

“There is a minimal level which any government which has been elected to power must achieve to be considered a true representative of the people.

“Look at what’s happening today with the cattle all over the place, that’s a security issue which should never have reached this level. That singular act has resulted in hundreds of people being killed, farms were taken over; it has wiped away a lot of the positive achievements of the government.

“They need to confront this nation as a habitation of human beings where very serious issues like economy, security, health, even threats of secession come up every day and convoke at the same time, a national conference, what I call an Indaba across all section which we will all meet and debate everything, including the economy of this nation.”