Gbajue Refers To Falsified Age, Name, Certificate & Narcotics Trafficking—Labour Party Tells Soyinka

<h4>Gbajue Refers To Falsified Age<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports the Labour Party has described a statement credited to Nobel laureate&comma; Prof&period; Wole Soyinka&comma; as a product of groupthink syndrome&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The party also noted that Soyinka’s statement fell short of what was expected of a statesman of his calibre&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This was contained in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party&comma; Obiora Ifoh&comma; in Abuja&comma; late on Thursday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Labour Party took note of the statement that emanated from the Nobel Laureate&comma; Prof&period; Wole Soyinka who as an institution we have the utmost respect for&period; He is a Nigerian whose accomplishments in the literary world is without doubt intimidating&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However&comma; we beg to disagree with his prognosis and personal opinion on the performance of our party during the 2023 general elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; The facts are before the courts and out of respect for our judiciary&comma; we will reserve our comments until the Supreme Court makes a final pronouncement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We understand that the literary giant is human and thus susceptible to emotions and probably said what he said based on information made available to him by those who share the &OpenCurlyQuote;Emilokan sentiment’&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In Yoruba&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Gbajue’ refers to fraudulent activities like age&comma; name or certificate forgery&comma; 419 or narcotics trafficking&comma; all of which are issues in the 2023 elections but not on the Labour Party’s part&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;’Gbajue’ in Yoruba also literally means &OpenCurlyQuote;slap him&sol;her in the face&period;’ Have all Nigerians not been slapped sufficiently in the face&quest; Thanks to this man of letters for bringing this out albeit&comma; advertently&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; It’s rather interesting that the erudite Prof&period; Soyinka who owned up to having an electoral &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;monitoring unit” conveniently glossed over INEC’s legerdemain leading to substantial non compliance and erosion of constitutional dictates&comma; just as he conveniently glossed over the INEC’s advanced &OpenCurlyQuote;gbajue’ of 25 February that has surreptitiously installed the King of &OpenCurlyQuote;gbajue’ in Aso Rock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is most befudling as well as disconcerting that a detribalized and activist Soyinka would succumb to the groupthink syndrome that subscribes to State Capture by those belonging to the criminal fringe by any means&comma; based on primordial considerations&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The party further said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We really appreciate him for at least giving some credits to Labour Party and its Presidential candidate for breaking the monopoly of power hitherto held by the two other parties&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We also noted his admission of his willingness to be part of a demonstration which would be based on the banner of truth&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However &comma; we are aware that Soyinka resides in Lagos state and he was in Nigeria in February 25 when elections held in Nigeria&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He watched probably with a glee when a certain individual in Lagos warned non-indigenes to vote a particular political party or risk being deported to their place of birth&comma; and he never condemned it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He was there were ballot boxes were snatched by thugs in a polling booth right in front of his house&comma; he didn’t condemned it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are still looking for where he came out to condemn the unprovoked attacks on our supporters in Lagos by members of the ruling All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; during the last elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The whole world followed the 2023 general election in Nigeria and there was a global condemnation of not only the outcome of the election but also the process&comma; particularly&comma; the &OpenCurlyQuote;glitching’ incidence that occured only during the transmission of presidential result to IREV&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As someone who is known to demonstrate based on truth&comma; we didn’t hear as much as a whisper from Kongi reminding INEC that stand by its word&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He also watched when Labour Party provided evidences of several defaced result sheets permitted and uploaded to the IREV by INEC particularly in places where Labour Party won&comma; again the great Soyinka was astonishingly mute&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We will not allege selective amnesia as the reason for Soyinka’s wrong prognosis but we would have expected him to be a statesman which we thought he was by remaining on the side of caution and not exhibiting the dual character of someone who may be blinded by some chauvinistic tendencies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We would rather keep our impression about his recent dual personality with us&period; We want to also let him know that building a New Nigeria is a dream whose time has come and Nigerian youths will not relent until such a dream is realized&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;