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Wole Soyinka Reacts To Pyrates Confraternity Members ‘Dragging’ Tinubu in Viral Video (Watch Here)

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Wole Soyinka Reacts To Pyrates Confraternity Members ‘Dragging’ Tinubu in Viral Video (Watch Here)

Globally revered Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka on Monday knocked the Pyrates Confraternity for dragging the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Soyinka, distanced himself from such immature display , saying he was not involved in that public performance.

The Nobel laureate in a statement captioned: “Interim Statement on a dubious political outing,” said his attention had been drawn to a video clip making internet rounds, of a dancing and chanting group, in red and white costume, purportedly members of the Pyrates Confraternity.

“The display acidly targets a presidential candidate in the awaited 2023 elections. Since the whole world knows of my connection with that fraternity, it is essential that I state in clear, unambiguous terms, that I am not involved in that public performance, nor in any way associated with the sentiments expressed in the songs.

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“Like any other civic group, the Pyrates Confraternity is entitled to its freedom of expression, individually or collectively. So also, is Wole Soyinka in his own person. I do not interfere in, nor do I attempt dictate the partisan political choices of the Confraternity.

“I remain unaware that the association ever engages in a collective statement of sponsorship or repudiation of any candidate. This is clearly a new and bizarre development, fraught with unpredictable consequences.

“In addition, let me make the following cultural affirmation. I have listened to the lyrics of the chant intently and I am frankly appalled. I find it distasteful. I belong to a culture where we do not mock physical afflictions or disabilities. Very much the contrary,” he said.

According to Soyinka, the Yoruba religion indeed designate a deity, Obatala, as the divine protector of the afflicted, no matter the nature of such affliction, saying that this “sensibility is engrained in us from childhood and remains with us all our lives. It operates on the principle of mortal frailty to which all humanity remains vulnerable.”

He added: “One of my favourite authors, about whom, by a coincidence, I had cause to write quite recently, was CLR James, author of The Black Jacobins, Beyond A Boundary etc. etc. I called him my ideological uncle. He suffered from Parkinson’s Disease, but remained alert, lucid and combative for decades after the onset of the disease.

“We interacted politically at the Tanzanian pan-African Congress, the Dakar Festival of Negro Arts and a number of other cultural and political fora. We met frequently in his lifetime, dined together in restaurants, despite his challenge. it would be unthinkable, and a desecration of his memory to be part of any activity that mocked his affliction.”

Soyinka said a further statement would be issued when he had made further enquiries into this strange, uncharacteristic outing of the association

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