Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deputy governor Kingsley Moghalu has apologized for his choice of words against Obidients who criticized Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka.
Moghalu had called Obidients “uncultured and unlettered” after they attacked Soyinka for saying that recent remarks made by Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party’s vice-presidential candidate, contained “fascistic language.”
In an interview with Channels TV on March 22, Baba-Ahmed stated that the country has no president-elect despite the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaring Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the election winner.
He claimed that if Tinubu is sworn in, he will lead an unconstitutional government because the APC is unconstitutional.
“The candidate has not met the legal requirements.”
In an interview with Arise TV days after the remarks, Soyinka described them as a “kind of do-or-die attitude and provocation” that went against democratic disposition.
Responding to the Obidients’ criticisms of Soyinka, Moghalu said on Thursday that the respected playwright is a “phenomenon” that “unlettered and uncultured people may not fully understand in an age of lazy social media.”
The former presidential candidate described Soyinka as a principled fighter for justice who would survive the Obidients movement’s harsh criticism.
However, Moghalu’s defense of Soyinka attracted a deluge of criticisms with many casting aspersion on him because of his choice of words.
But on Friday, Moghalu said he has to apologize for his choice of words which may have been
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