Soyinka Hits Buhari Again, Says President’s Insistence On Grazing Routes Shows He’s Mentally Handicapped

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has queried President
Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence on establishing grazing routes around
the country despite public outcry against the policy.

He said the president may be suffering from “mental
delusion.”

“It’s like there’s some delusion about this thing, a kind of
mental delusion about this thing. What is it?” Soyinka asked, as he
addressed a press conference in Lagos on Friday.

The Nobel laureate added that Buhari may also be suffering from
deafening noise from his son’s wedding bells last weekend.

“Perhaps the sound, the noise of the wedding bells (Yusuf
Buhari) has contributed to the possible impairment of the hearing
of the president of this nation. Because he does not seem to hear
anything,” the professor of linguistics lampooned.

Citing a series of groups of people that have kicked against Mr
Buhari’s move, Mr Soyinka wondered why the president was obsessed
“about something which is being rejected, right, left and
centre.”

Virtually the whole nation is screaming we do not want any open
cattle grazing whether they go by the name cattle routes or grazing
reserves. Even the all-powerful and untouchable Miyetti Allah,
patrons of the murderous Fulani herdsmen, have gone on record that
ranching is it,” Soyinka asserted.

In April and July, Southern Governors’ Forum at their meetings
in Asaba and Lagos respectively announced a ban on open grazing in
the region, setting a September 1 deadline for full
implementation.

Soyinka alleged that there was perhaps another agenda behind
Buhari’s setting up of a committee to recover old grazing routes
across the country.

“And when we think of all that discussions, all that debates is
settled in rational terms, along comes a new version of RUGA with
the president insisting on sending his agents out to go and map out
and recover the old grazing reserves when governments and people,
experts, agronomists, businesspeople are saying this is the
business and should be conducted in this particular way.” Why is
the president obsessed about something that is being rejected by
the people? The activist queried.

“The obsession is on such a level that even people who consider
themselves rational, like myself, begin to wonder whether this is
really all about cattle. Perhaps there are other kinds of agenda
that we don’t know about.”

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has queried President
Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence on establishing grazing routes around
the country despite public outcry against the policy.

He said the president may be suffering from “mental
delusion.”

“It’s like there’s some delusion about this thing, a kind of
mental delusion about this thing. What is it?” Soyinka asked, as he
addressed a press conference in Lagos on Friday.

The Nobel laureate added that Buhari may also be suffering from
deafening noise from his son’s wedding bells last weekend.

“Perhaps the sound, the noise of the wedding bells (Yusuf
Buhari) has contributed to the possible impairment of the hearing
of the president of this nation. Because he does not seem to hear
anything,” the professor of linguistics lampooned.

Citing a series of groups of people that have kicked against Mr
Buhari’s move, Mr Soyinka wondered why the president was obsessed
“about something which is being rejected, right, left and
centre.”

Virtually the whole nation is screaming we do not want any open
cattle grazing whether they go by the name cattle routes or grazing
reserves. Even the all-powerful and untouchable Miyetti Allah,
patrons of the murderous Fulani herdsmen, have gone on record that
ranching is it,” Soyinka asserted.

In April and July, Southern Governors’ Forum at their meetings
in Asaba and Lagos respectively announced a ban on open grazing in
the region, setting a September 1 deadline for full
implementation.

Soyinka alleged that there was perhaps another agenda behind
Buhari’s setting up of a committee to recover old grazing routes
across the country.

“And when we think of all that discussions, all that debates is
settled in rational terms, along comes a new version of RUGA with
the president insisting on sending his agents out to go and map out
and recover the old grazing reserves when governments and people,
experts, agronomists, businesspeople are saying this is the
business and should be conducted in this particular way.” Why is
the president obsessed about something that is being rejected by
the people? The activist queried.

“The obsession is on such a level that even people who consider
themselves rational, like myself, begin to wonder whether this is
really all about cattle. Perhaps there are other kinds of agenda
that we don’t know about.”