Veteran Nigerian entertainer, Charles Oputa, popularly called Charly Boy has slammed Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, over his recent remarks on ‘OBIdients’, supporters of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
TRIBUNE ONLINE earlier reported Soyinka on Friday, criticised Obi’s supporters for the attacks on his personality, describing them as ‘fascists’.
According to Charly Boy, “Soyinka can never be the man Chinua Achebe was”.
The ‘Area Father’ made the assertion in a tweet on Saturday.
“The kin (kind) respect I had for dis (this) man, was almost the kind of respect I had for my stainless father, The Socrates of the Supreme Court. It has finally dawned on me that Soyinka can never be the man Chinua Achebe was,” he tweeted.
“Look at a man many Nigerians put on such high pedestal reducing himself to a boyiboyi for criminal politicians. What a f..king big shame,” he added.
The kin respect I had for dis man, was almost the kind of respect I had for my stainless father, The Socrates of the Supreme Court.
It has finally dawned on me that Soyinka can never be the man Chinua Achebe was. pic.twitter.com/jlwqp7y8eb— Charly Boy Area Fada 1 (@AreaFada1) April 8, 2023
Late Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart, occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel.
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