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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   June 12: Wada Nas attacks Soyinka… For asking IBB to apologise By Kenny Ashaka, Kaduna Friday , July 30 2004 Wada Nas Photo: Sun News Publishing National Index Alhaji Wada Nas, former Special Adviser on Political Matters to Gen. Sani Abacha, has lashed out at Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over the latter’s declaration in Kaduna on Tuesday that former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, should apologise for annulling the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Nas, who was also Special Duties Minister during the late Gen. Abacha regime, said Professor Soyinka was anti-North and that his demand for apology from Gen. Babangida was selective. Speaking at a news conference in Kaduna, Nas said that Prof. Soyinka’s call was an insincere one done in bad faith. He accused the Nobel Laureate of sectional hatred. As if in retaliation, Nas called on President Olusegun Obasanjo to apologise to Nigerians for changing the face of democracy with dictatorial fiat. "I think Obasanjo should apologise to Nigerians for the total failure of his administration for the past five years. People are undergoing serious hardship and almost nothing is working in Nigeria. Yet, Soyinka is calling on the former military president to apologise for an offence against only one of the ingredients of democracy. "Obasanjo is somebody who has scuttled every ingredient of democracy in Nigeria. I was not at all surprised by Soyinka’s call. I know he will not make such a call on Obasanjo because it is his own that is in charge," Nas said. According to him, Prof. Soyinka has never seen anything good in any northerner, adding that the Nobel Laureate’s much touted relationship with some prominent northerners was pretence. "Records have shown that he has nothing to do with anybody from the North unless with those he wants to use and dump. It will be only fair if he makes the same call to Obasanjo," Nas said. On Tuesday in Kaduna, Prof. Soyinka had counselled General Babangida thus: "I did read the interview of IBB where he was playing around with the word ‘responsibility.’ IBB has to apologise if he wants to start on a clean slate. He must apologise to this nation. In fact, for many, for a number of things. But especially for thwarting the democratic wishes of the nation. "The result of the June 12 (election) was not the result of one section alone. It was a national election. So, this was an assault on our democratic aspirations."       HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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