The advice by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, that President Muhammadu Buhari summon an emergency meeting on the economy appears on the surface innocuous but deep down, it is fully loaded and ominous.
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On a visit to the
Dr. Josef Goebbels of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Soyinka
called for an emergency conference on the economy to which people outside
government circles will also be invited, such as consumers, producers, Labour
unions, experts on the economy, University egg-heads, among others.
Note Soyinka’s exact
words: “I think we really need an emergency economic conference, a rescue
operation bringing as many heads as possible together to plot the way forward.”
We must also note that the Nobel Laureate, being not just a man of letters but
also one with an internationally-acclaimed mastery of the English Language,
gingerly and delectably picks his words. He means the words that he uses; no
idle or wasteful word is allowed.
So, look at the
words he chose to employ in just that sentence: “I think we really need…”
meaning that it was a carefully thought-out process that brought out his
advice; he was not whimsical about it. He did not just wake up from the wrong
side of his bed to begin to rant; the advice was his considered opinion.
