Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned against the Buhari government's move to retrieve grazing reserves he said does not exist.
Describing Buhari as a man who doesn't seem to hear things, he said every action of the president points to the possibility of an agenda besides what is already known, adding that such kind of behaviors 'is more than ordinary.'
Soyinka who made the statement while speaking with newsmen in Lagos on Friday during an interactive session titled ‘Sanctions on the Loose: Chasing the Gnat with a Sledgehammer’, said ordinarily, a leader is supposed to understand the mood in the country and act accordingly. But despite oppositions on open grazing, Buhari won't relent.
“He doesn’t seem to hear things… Is there an agenda we don’t yet know about? Eleyi koja oju lasan (this is more than ordinary),” he said.
Meanwhile, Charles Oputa a.k.a Charly Boy, has in an interview with Daily Sun, what is happening in the country is only just the beginning because Nigerians had over the years, failed to see the handwriting on the wall.
He said the careless attitude of Nigerians, particularly from the south, gave enough room for enemy to plan, and now unleashing evil on the nation.
He said, "Maybe God has brought Buhari to show us something for us to wake up from our slumber because ‘pickin wey no know wetin kill him papa that same thing go kill the pickin’. If we have no sense of history, this oppression did not start today, it just grew from bad to worse and it will get worse before the end of the year.
"The only thing we now have left is to fight for our survival both old, middle-aged and young people because the enemy wishes us no good. The poverty and the hunger you see are baseless. You are not supposed to be hungry, we are not supposed to be poor, but this is a systematic thing to break us, to break everybody."
He said Nigerians had relaxed, thinking that the problems of a particular, region belongs to the region, but now they know better.
"If we cannot see that an injustice to one is an injustice to all, then ‘problem dey’. If we think crises in the Middle Belt are their ‘wahala’, then we have a long way to go" the area fada stated.
"Before, they said it is Hausa/Fulani, now we have seen it is Fulani because Hausa people ‘don dey receive the pepper’. Middle Belt is shouting, the West is calling Oduduwa, they want Oduduwa State, the Igbo said we are marginalised, we want the Biafra State, all because there is so much injustice.
"Even Buhari’s town, there is injustice; inside Buhari’s village, there is injustice. ‘So, na for which State injustice no go dey’? Like I said, evil jumps around. The atmosphere these days is demonic.
"Look at the churches we have in every corner and cranny in this country, is Nigeria closer to God and love? Hell no! People are doing all kinds of horrible things just to survive. Where do you think this is coming from, where do you think this influence of evil is coming from?
"When we were born, in my time, there used to be rewards for goodness, but these days, if you do bad, if you are a horrible kind of person, you will be rewarded, so if you keep rewarding evil what do you think will be the consequences.
"That is what you see today and the worst is yet to come. ‘Since my thief better pass your own thief’, since we cannot agree that a thief is a thief and as such must have the maximum punishment for thievery, then how can Nigeria regroup? So, if you promote evil that is what you will see.
"Kidnapping was happening in one part of the country, nobody cares, now it has spread, that is what I meant by evil spreading. Boko Haram started in the North, let them kill themselves there, but now, it is everywhere. ‘So, we go hear am’, ‘we never start’," he added.