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T.B Joshua named ‘Yoruba man of the decade’, Soyinka ‘Yoruba man of the year’
Synagogue Church of All Nations founder TB Joshua has been named ‘Yoruba man of the decade’, while Wole Soyinka was…
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Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka condemns Buhari, Jonathan as Presidential candidate
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has criticised the two frontline candidates in the March 28 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party and Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress.
Soyinka, in an interview with the BBC on Monday, insisted that the political parties should have come up with far better options than the two leading candidates.
He described President Jonathan, who is running for a second term and the opposition leader, Buhari, as “problematic candidates.”
“There is a huge albatross hanging [around] the necks of the two main candidates. I can understand the dilemma which many voters have,” Soyinka said.
He added that “one contender is troubled by the present, the other by the past.
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