Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and renowned playwright, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many
Soyinka while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Friday said the terror attack was targeted at the governor who has been showing leadership in terms of internal liberation of his people.NAN reports.“It was not an accident and it passed a message to the rest of us. That is why I’m here. I want the governor to know that we have received the message.
“We understand it and we came to sympathise with him that he was selected as a medium of that message,“ Soyinka said. Akeredolu thanked the Nobel laureate for the visit, saying that the state would remain hugely indebted to him.The state wants to appreciate you for finding the time to come at this hour of grief.
“This is like a dagger drawn at our heart and it is an assault on the psyche of those of us in the South-West. “I believe they think they can create some fears in us but they made a mistake as the attack will make us more fierce in our condemnation of their actions,” Akeredolu noted
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