{"id":62509,"date":"2023-02-19T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62509"},"modified":"2023-02-19T23:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T23:03:23","slug":"not-me-i-did-not-say-those-things-about-obj-atiku-tinubu-says-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62509","title":{"rendered":"Not me, I did not say those things about OBJ, Atiku, Tinubu, says Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a disclaimer, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said comments bandied across social media platforms, and ascribed to him, did not come from him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement titled, <b>DISCLAIMER, <\/b>reads in full:<\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><i>To: The Media &amp; Members of the Public,\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The following quotes (in italics bold) attributed to Professor Wole Soyinka, which are being widely circulated in the social media, are <b>FAKE.<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><i><b>&#8220;Quote me anywhere, Nigerians don&#8217;t need the likes of Atiku and Obasanjo to lead them again. We have tasted the two: Atiku Is Corrupt and Obasanjo is a liar. Both of them are greedy and self-centered&#8230;.&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><i><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><i><b>\u201cAnybody, any cabal, any Viju milk activist, attempting to humiliate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu must have me to contend with.\u00a0 \u00a0An average PDP man is angry with Asiwaju because he brought them to their knees. If anyone thinks that bringing down Asiwaju is his project, that mission will not only crash but it will boomerang.\u00a0 \u00a0He owns Lagos! I hear you! Ask your grandfather and parents how they acquired your so-called family land. Is it God that allocated it to them?&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Professor Soyinka did NOT at any time or on any occasion issue such a statement. It is simply the works of peddlers of FAKE News and FALSEHOOD, who profit from Misinformation to gain political advantages.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Media and members of the public are advised to <b>IGNORE<\/b> the message or any other political message that addresses or targets any political party or political actor.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thanks for your attention and assistance in giving this statement wide exposure in your esteemed medium.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a disclaimer, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said comments bandied across social media platforms, and ascribed to him, did not come from him. In a statement titled, DISCLAIMER, reads in full: To: The Media &amp; Members of the Public,\u00a0 The following quotes (in italics bold) attributed to Professor Wole Soyinka, which are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1037,1200,56],"class_list":["post-62509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fake","tag-obj","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}