{"id":160170,"date":"2019-10-14T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160170"},"modified":"2019-10-14T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:53:45","slug":"soyinka-there-are-names-in-this-country-ill-never-mention-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160170","title":{"rendered":"Soyinka: There Are Names In This Country I&#8217;ll Never Mention Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Peddlers-Of-Fake-News-Are-Cowards-Says-Soyinka.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says there are some names of<br \/>\nprominent citizens in Nigeria that he will never mention again.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka stated this at the Freedom Park in Lagos during a pre-launch<br \/>\nevent of his latest book, &#8216;Beyond Aesthetics&#8217; and the launch of<br \/>\n&#8216;Beautiful: The Exposition&#8217;, an art collection.<\/p>\n<p>The rights activist and playwright is considered a nemesis of former<br \/>\nPresident Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n<p>Both men had in the past engaged in scathing references to each other<br \/>\nin their books.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning names mentioned in the yet-to-be-released book, \u201cSo, please<br \/>\ndon\u2019t come at me and say why don\u2019t you leave this man alone? It\u2019s<br \/>\nnothing to do with me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s just a reality and this is also an opportunity to explain to<br \/>\npeople that there is nothing really personal about some of these<br \/>\nheavy-duty antagonists you see or read about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, no, it is not.  It\u2019s taking power on and power turns ugly which<br \/>\nis 99 percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are names in this country I have promised myself I will never<br \/>\nmention again. So, I will not mention any names. But if you find any<br \/>\nsuch name here, please have patience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t just say what on earth is he giving them? Believe me, it\u2019s<br \/>\nunrelated. Aesthetics, allusion for beauty\u2026\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says there are some names of prominent citizens in Nigeria that he will never mention again. Soyinka stated this at the Freedom Park in Lagos during a pre-launch event of his latest book, &#8216;Beyond Aesthetics&#8217; and the launch of &#8216;Beautiful: The Exposition&#8217;, an art collection. The rights activist and playwright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77577,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[11480,4866,13436,527],"class_list":["post-160170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-nigeria-2","tag-crime","tag-names","tag-wole-soyinka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160170","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=160170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}