Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has mocked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over what he described as the excessive deployment of armed security personnel around his family.
Speaking on Tuesday at the 20th Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Awards held in Lagos, Soyinka said the amount of security protecting Tinubu’s son, Seyi, was enough to invade a small country.
Soyinka joked that the President should have mobilised the security details around his son to confront threats in countries like the Benin Republic.
Soyinka said, “Tinubu didn’t have to send the air force and the military to deal with this particular insurrection, this threat to our own sense of security and equilibrium. No. There is an easier way to do it.
“Let me tell you where Tinubu should look for forces to quell that insurrection. Right here, in Lagos, or in Abuja, perhaps.
“And I think next time there’s an insurrection, I think the president should just call that young man and say, ‘Seyi, go and put down those stupid people there. You have troops under your command’”.
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