No word can describe what you have achieved
professionally and as well as a patriot. You are
one of a kind. You have become the conscience
of our nation, pricking us and alerting us to the
dangers ahead. You have not stopped there; you
have gone further to proffer solutions in a timely
and comprehensive manner on how to move
things forward. Your words and interventions
continue to resonate here at home and globally.
- Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 80th
Birthday Message to Wole Soyinka
You remain one of the few truly celebrated
Nigerian icons and a solid and powerful voice.
Indeed, one of the very few powerful voices who
continue speak up against injustice, inequality
and creeping fascism. The more they try to
diminish you, the more your status rise in
distinction to their incoherence and verbiage.
Each time they try to silence you, your voice
rings out louder and clearer.
You have always said, “The greatest
threat to freedom is the absence of
criticism ” and you are being proved right
with our experience. We take instruction in
these words of yours.
Nigeria’s search for true democracy remains on
course because of your unrelenting and lucid
interventions. Through the years you have
demonstrated a fierce commitment to the
Nigerian project and worked assiduously with
different groups and organizations in the
singular effort to ensure that Nigeria’s
democracy survives and we achieve an
egalitarian society.
I identify with you in this struggle for a better
and greater Nigeria and stand side by side with
you in your condemnation of the impunity of the
present administration and the demand you
have made that the current Nigerian
government has a case to answer for all the
unconstitutional acts it is perpetrating.
I celebrate with you today. May you grow in
wisdom and knowledge. May you find peace and
remain in good health. Happy birthday.
- Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 80th
Birthday Message to Wole Soyinka
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