Soyinka Is An Embarrassment To His Admirers – Patience Jonathan

Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on
Friday took on the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole
Soyinka, for attributing the crisis in the Rivers
State House of Assembly to her.
In a statement by her spokesman, Ayo Osinlu, the
President's wife said Soyinka betrayed the moral
duty that expected him, as a respected member
of the society, to carefully consider all shades of
issues that informed his opinions on any matter.
Mrs. Jonathan said Soyinka had become an
embarrassment to his admirers with his diatribe
against her.
The statement read in part, "Unfortunately,
Soyinka betrayed moral duty in his recent diatribe
against Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
"Of course, this would not be the first time he
would reach out against the First Lady, usually
from self-righteously indignant lecterns.
"In this particular instance, his verdict was that
Mrs. Jonathan was 'stoking the crisis currently
rocking her home state of Rivers…', and
thereupon asked Mr. President to caution his wife.
"The good, old Prof. reminds one of the truth that
indeed, most of the giants on the street are men
of like passions like everyone else. Worse still,
most of them are actually standing on clay feet
and would fail the test of a gentle push.
"Otherwise, who would have believed that the
social, civil, constitutional and sundry rights
crusader Prof. would maintain a safe distance
from the heart of an activity that is a potential
threat to the peace, security and safety of the
people of a state, then collect exaggerated stories
and jaundiced perspectives from familiar
propagandists and character assassins, and
promptly summon the media to a "state of the
nation" address.
"It's an embarrassment to his throng of admirers
and followers, that a sage of Prof. Soyinka's
status, who used to be a gauge of public morality
in this nation, would lend himself to a propaganda
of high drive, to save a governor who elected to
launch into a river without applicable survival
skills."
Mrs. Jonathan argued that the calculation was to
attack the President and pull to pieces anyone
associated with him, as a strategy for attracting
public sympathy to the "clear underdog."