Opposition Groups Challenge Mrs Jonathan to Debate with Soyinka.

Some
Nigerian Opposition groups has joined issues with the wife of the
President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs Patience Jonathan, to make herself
available for a debate with Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.
The
call came after the First Lady's spokesmen responded to the numerous
attacks and insults directed at her and her husband by Elder-statesman,
Soyinka.
The First lady described
the attacks on her by the renowned playwright as "regrettable and an
embarrassment’’ for attributing the crisis rocking Rivers State to her
and her husband with any valid prove.
The Opposition online
tigers took to Twitter and other social media to voice their concern
over the development, calling on Channels Television, to organise a
debate for the First Lady and Wole Soyinka.
In any sphere of
it, this call is the height of societal insensitivity and gross
irresponsibility of the involved Nigerian opposition, who has no record
of any Nigerian who is defending himself/herself being subjected to a
public debate for whatever reason.
We should not forget that
Soyinka has engaged in unprovoked and personal insult on the First Lady
of the Federal republic of Nigeria since the last three weeks.
Soyinka is a Politician whose party, DFPF has unsuccessfully contested
for various elective position in Nigeria of late and therefore any of
his criticism is seen as having political coloration and bias.
For
nearly two years now, Rivers state is the second home of Wole Soyinka,
who has a blossoming relationship with Governor Amaechi and will do
anything to defends his regular host.
Soyinka making frivolous
or unsubstantiated remark against Nigerian First Lady and a wife of
another Man, is un-Nigerian, ethically wrong, morally unbecoming and
speaks volume of the types of elder-statesmen and leaders that Nigerians
entrusted their affairs since the Independent
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