A Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has portrayed a previous president, Olusegun Obasanjo, as a 'charlatan' who has crossed the red line a few times.
Mr Obasanjo is "one of the best deceptive pioneers this country at any point had" the laureate said on Friday.
He was talking at a discussion with writers at the global Press Institute (IPI) world congress holding at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
The remarks came as reaction to an inquiry from an individual from the gathering of people on why Mr Soyinka 'despises' Mr Obasanjo and a previous military head of state, Sani Abacha.
To begin with, Mr Soyinka condemned President Muhammadu Buhari for representing a hostile to debasement pose but then regarding a pioneer like late Mr Abacha.
Mr Soyinka made comparative remarks on June 12 amid the conferment of respect of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on generally acclaimed victor of the 1993 decision, Moshood Abiola.
Mr Abiola was detained by the Abacha government and in the long run kicked the bucket in jail.
Mr Soyinka requested that the president quit 'making perplexity" in the psyches of Nigerians' as 'it isn't conceivable to respect MKO Abiola in one breath and after that appreciate his tormentor in another breath."
Abacha was Nigeria's tenth military head of state. He filled in as the Nigerian pioneer from November 17, 1993 till June 8, 1998. His legislature was damaged by widespread debasement and human rights mishandle, particularly the hanging of lobbyist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of a few executions of Ogoni activists who restricted the misuse of assets in their enclaves.
In his assault on Mr Obasanjo, Mr Soyinka said the two-time non military personnel president isn't in a decent position to lead a third political power in the nation.
Soyinka said his perspectives on Mr Obasanjo have been recorded in a book titled 'Who watches the guard.'
He said the book will be propelled on July 3 at Freedom Park, Lagos.
"That distribution is turning out basically in light of the fact that I should see fresh recruits in administration and I think the degenerate hypocritic assortment should quit reusing itself.
"They should quit attempting to co-select their previous colleagues to assume control over the reins of administration in this nation."
Mr Obasanjo in a letter to President Buhari in January proposed a Third Force to break the administration of the nation's two noteworthy gatherings.
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