Satirist, Nobel Laureate and playwright, Wole Soyinka said that former President Goodluck Jonathan didn’t care about the Chibok girls and when he asked him about it, he was less than courteous in his reply.
Soyinka was speaking at a talk organised by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos, he said that Jonathan told him that the Chibok girls were his (Soyinka’s) headache.
“I reached out to former President Jonathan, and protested, chiding him severely on his reaction over the abduction of the Chibok girls. I said to him; ‘you want to be accepted as a political leader, and you do not even accept as your duty to be there (Chibok), at the scene of the disaster?’ And I asked him, did you actually utter those words attributed to you? His response remains a riddle to me till today,” he said.
“His exact words to me, not easily forgotten I assure you, were ‘Kampala tie niyen,’ meaning that is your own Kampala.”
He also claimed that it took about 3 weeks before Jonathan even accepted that the girls had indeed ben abducted
“He said the opposition was only using this to discredit his government, and precious days to have rescued the girls were lost,” he said.