Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for embarking on a political rally barely 48 hours after the Nyanya bomb blast and the abduction of school girls in Chibok in Borno State.
While speaking at the main opening of the Port Harcourt UNESCO World Book capital, Soyinka expressed shock at the President placing a political rally over tackling the Boko Haram insurgence.
Soyinka lamented that while the leadership of the country visited some victims of Nyaya Motor Park explosion and assured victims that they would not be abandoned, the President then travelled to Kano for a rally.
He charged President Jonathan to face the problem of Boko Haram uprising and stop concentrating on his re-election campaign.
Soyinka, who was the keynote speaker at the occasion, said the leadership of the country was expected to have convened an emergency security meeting with a view to chart a way forward against the violent Islamic group.
Explaining that the bomb blast in Nyaya, Abuja, and the kidnapping of over 200 school girls call for an urgent attention by the leadership of the country, the Nobel Laureate expressed sadness over the trauma the abducted students were passing through.
SOURCE: PUNCH