{"id":110013,"date":"2019-04-23T23:29:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110013"},"modified":"2019-04-24T00:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T23:15:27","slug":"soyinka-reveals-how-obasanjo-allegedly-helped-boko-haram-tackles-buhari-over-security-lapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=110013","title":{"rendered":"Soyinka reveals how Obasanjo allegedly helped Boko Haram, tackles Buhari over security lapses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has accused former President, Olusegun Obasanjo of contributing to the emergence of Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

Soyinka explained that Obasanjo failed to stop a Northern governor from creating what he termed \u201ctheocratic state\u201d, hence he contributed to the emergence of the terror group.<\/p>\n

Featuring on BBC\u2019s Hardtalk anchored by Zeinab Badawi, Soyinka also pointed out areas President Muhammadu Buhari failed to include his \u201cslow response\u201d in dealing with the terror of marauding Fulani herdsmen across Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Soyinka stated this while stressing that Buhari has failed in the area of security.<\/p>\n

He insisted that Buhari was repeating the mistakes of his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, who failed to deal with the Boko Haram menace.<\/p>\n

He said; \u201cObasanjo contributed to the emergence of Boko Haram by not preventing the first governor in one of the northern states from establishing a \u201ctheocratic state\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Laureate said the president failed to act because he was \u201ccompromised,\u201d by his ambitions to continue in office beyond the second term limit.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has accused former President, Olusegun Obasanjo of contributing to the emergence of Boko Haram. Soyinka explained that Obasanjo failed to stop a Northern governor from creating what he termed \u201ctheocratic state\u201d, hence he contributed to the emergence of the terror group. Featuring on BBC\u2019s Hardtalk anchored by Zeinab Badawi, Soyinka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}