{"id":8101,"date":"2020-04-02T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T07:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2020-04-02T07:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T07:29:52","slug":"fani-kayode-attacks-presidency-for-dubbing-soyinka-a-mere-fiction-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=8101","title":{"rendered":"Fani-Kayode attacks Presidency for dubbing Soyinka a \u2018mere fiction writer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode<\/a> has frowned at the attack on Professor Wole Soyinka by the President Muhammadu Buhari Presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former minister said the Presidency should understand that Soyinka remained a Nobel Laureate, whose shoes the Presidency \u201care not fit to lick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reaction to Soyinka\u2019s criticism of Buhari\u2019s lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states as well as Abuja for 14 days over COVID-19, Buhari\u2019s senior aide on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday asked Nigerians to only take serious information from scientists and medical specialists on issues of COVID-19 and not fiction writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the meantime, we ask the people of Nigeria to trust the words of our doctors and scientists \u2013 and not fiction writers \u2013 at this time of national crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYesterday, the esteemed Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, made comments on the legal status and description of 14-day lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProf. Soyinka is not a medical professor. His qualifications are in English literature, and his prizes are for writing books and plays for theatres,\u201d Shehu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But responding in a post on his verified Twitter account, Fani-Kayode wrote, \u201cWhen he supported you in 2015 you hailed & praised him. Now that he has criticised you publicly about your handling of the COVID 19 pandemic you call him a \u2018mere fiction writer\u2019 that \u2018no-one should listen to\u2019. That is a Nobel Laureate: a man whose shoes you are not fit to lick.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has frowned at the attack on Professor Wole Soyinka by the President Muhammadu Buhari Presidency. The former minister said the Presidency should understand that Soyinka remained a Nobel Laureate, whose shoes the Presidency \u201care not fit to lick.\u201d In reaction to Soyinka\u2019s criticism of Buhari\u2019s lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nFani-Kayode attacks Presidency for dubbing Soyinka a \u2018mere fiction writer\u2019 » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=8101\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=8101#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=14\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Fani-Kayode attacks Presidency for dubbing Soyinka a \u2018mere fiction writer\u2019\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fani-Kayode attacks Presidency for dubbing Soyinka a \u2018mere fiction writer\u2019 » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=8101","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=8101#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=14"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Fani-Kayode attacks Presidency for dubbing Soyinka a \u2018mere fiction writer\u2019"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has frowned at the attack on Professor Wole Soyinka by the President Muhammadu Buhari Presidency. The former minister said the Presidency should understand that Soyinka remained a Nobel Laureate, whose shoes the Presidency \u201care not fit to lick.\u201d In reaction to Soyinka\u2019s criticism of Buhari\u2019s lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states as…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}