Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, has clarified why Peter Obi visited him on May 7, which some media outlets have reported as a reconciliatory move. Soyinka stated that he knows and can relate to Peter Obi and the Labour Party on whose platform he contested elections, but he does not understand. He cannot connect to the “Obidient” or “Obidient Family.”
Hence, any notion of Reconciliation or relations with such an entity is inappropriate. Furthermore, the meeting only had two other attendees, and there was no mention of reconciliation. Instead, there were open and imaginative discussions where expressions such as “burden of leadership,” “responsibility,” “apology,” “pleading,” “formal dissociation from the untenable,” and the “tragic ascendancy of ethnic cleavage” were used.
Wole Soyinka emphasized that the Reconciliation notion was non-applicable and never raised. In addition, he brought attention to his essays on the Reconciliation based on Truth and the ethical imperative of Restitution. He plans to expand on these topics in his upcoming book, DEMOCRACY PRIMER III.
