Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has denied paying tribute to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
A report, supposedly written by Soyinka, entitled, ‘Prof Wole Soyinka’s tribute to Sen Asiwaju Tinubu’, had gone viral on social media, supposedly praising Tinubu on his political accomplishments.
However, Soyinka in a statement titled, ‘I did not pay tribute to Tinubu – Soyinka’, issued by his spokesman, Abiola Owoaje Soyinka described the trending post as the handiwork of indolent identity thieves whose preoccupation is to deceive the public in a bid to gain prominence.
The statement partly reads: “The literary luminary reiterated his position on the 2023 elections and the issues surrounding it, noting that he has no business meddling in the struggle for power by political parties in the country.
“Soyinka enjoins the general public to be on alert to the antics of faceless cowards spreading falsehood, adding that they should not partake in the despicable action of the authors by spreading the cocktail of lies.”
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