Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has condemned the N5 million fine imposed on CHANNELS Television by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over the March 22 interview it had with Labour Party (LP) vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.
Soyinka, in a statement yesterday, said he watched the programme keenly and saw the valiant efforts of the interviewer to ensure fair hearing.
In the statement titled ‘Fascism On Course’, the Nobel Laureate also noted that a climate of fear was being generated in the country, adding Project Nigeria has become near terminally soul-searing. “The ensuing cacophony has been truly bewildering. It strikes me as a possible ploy to smother recent provocations by other, far more trenchant issues, such as revelations of declarations of a religious war. If so, let it be known that I have long declared war against religious fundamentalism, the nature of which justifies the butchery, kidnapping and enslavement of students in the name of religion. That aspirant’s alleged gaffe cuts no ice with me.
“We shall add the following pointer for this particular electoral tussle – the news may be unpleasant, but here it comes. “Oh yes, could these rabid parochial minds of easy excitation also kindly stop flattering themselves that one’s energies are consecrated solely to the nation space known as `Nigeria? The whines of “silence” are relative to the reading scope and world knowledge of idle complainants as well as their grasp of the chain of continuity.
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