Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as being under a trance which he needs to exit from as quickly as posible.
Soyinka, who expressed frustration over what he described as the “unforced errors of the Buhari administration”, was speaking at a press briefing on the increasing agitation across the country following attacks by armed herdsmen on farming communities.
When asked what he would tell Buhari if he met him, Soyinka replied: “I would say: Mr President, I think you are under a trance. The sooner he gets out of it the better. So many unforced errors are going on.”
Soyinka cited Buhari’s recall of the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf, after he was suspended for alleged graft by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, as a recent example of the unforced errors that has characterised Buhari’s era.