{"id":915892,"date":"2022-01-13T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/i-didnt-endorse-any-presidential-aspirant-says-soyinka\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:03:00","slug":"i-didnt-endorse-any-presidential-aspirant-says-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/i-didnt-endorse-any-presidential-aspirant-says-soyinka\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn\u2019t Endorse Any Presidential Aspirant, Says Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_685377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-685377\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-685377 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Wole-Soyinka-e1458147341194-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"2023: I Didn\u2019t Endorse Any Presidential Aspirant, Says Soyinka\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-685377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, has distanced himself from a viral post linking him to the support of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement released on Wednesday headlined \u201cSeason of Fakery Galore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elder statesman branded the authors of the article as uneducated public interlopers who lacked the guts of their convictions and were forced to steal the identities of their superiors.<\/p>\n<p>The post, embedded with the pictures of Soyinka and Tinubu, went viral on the Internet last November and quoted Soyinka as saying, \u201cI have never involve myself in politics or campaign for any politician but in 2023 I will involve in politics and campaign for longtime friend in 1993 NADECO struggle. Nobel laurel, Professor Wole Soyinka.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_5d5 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: Tinubu Promotes Excellence, Capable Of Becoming Nigeria\u2019s President -Abe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soyinka said, \u201cHere we go again. The same boring, illiterate public interlopers who lack the courage of their conviction and must steal the identities of their betters. One can only hope that the public has learnt to identify Fake News and join in the urgent task of exposing and disgracing these despicable touts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, I have not even thoughy 2023, much less inserted candidates into coveted positions. The signature of this latest moron is familiar \u2013 he or she does not even know the difference between \u2018Laureate and Laurel.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an ancient forgery being recycled for the umpteenth time. Those who pass it round do themselves and their recipients a disservice. Find something worthwhile to occupy your time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any case, we have no business with politics in the land of the dead, and the most recent information I have on me is that I died sometime last year. The email account of the year\u2019s Nobel \u2018Laurel\u201d\u2018 was hacked by these same agents to publicise my demise, so who is this still politicking WS \u2018Laurel\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, has distanced himself from a viral post linking him to the support of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress. This was contained in a statement released on Wednesday headlined \u201cSeason of Fakery Galore.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}