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You’re unfit to lick Soyinka’s shoes – Fani-Kayode carpets Presidency

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lambasted the Presidency over its comment against Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.

Recall that literary guru had criticized President Muhammadu Buhari over the lockdown of Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states on account of the spreading Coronavirus pandemic.

The president had ordered a 14-day lockdown in a bid to tackle the spread of virus.

Reacting to the president’s order, Prof. Soyinka had described the lockdown as ‘unconstitutional’.

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A media aide to the president, Garba Shehu, while responding to Prof. Soyinka’s comments had urged Nigerians to shun the Nobel Laureate and be guided by  information from scientists on issues concerning diseases.

Reacting to Shehu’s remark, Fani-Kayode maintained that President Buhari was not even ‘fit to lick’ Soyinka’s shoes. This he said in a series of tweets, on Thursday.

In a tweet, the former minister wrote: “When he supported you in 2015, you hailed & praised him. Now that he has criticized you publicly about your handling of the COVID-19 pandemic you call him a “mere fiction writer” that “no-one should listen to”. That is a Nobel Laureate: a man whose shoes you are not fit to lick.”

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