Further to the call by Professor Wole Soyinka to have a debate with the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, the spokesman of the LP, Professor Chris Nwokobia, has responded to Soyinka’s invitation.
Nwokobia spoke on the development at a monitored television programme on Saturday.
The Spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Movement disclosed that Baba-Ahmed will indeed square off against the Nobel laureate if it becomes critically necessary.
“Oh yes, he will and effectively so. The least of the Obidients can take up that debate and do it profoundly.”
“I know Prof Wole Soyinka, I know he will not go for that debate because the point is that history is replete with facts and figures,” Nwakobia said. He added that if Soyinka does show up, Baba-Ahmed or even the least of the Obidients would engage him in a face-off.
Nwakobia defended Baba-Ahmed over his comment on the need to avoid swearing in the President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
He said he believes the writer will not engage in a debate with any member of the Obidient movement.
“Do you know that some of us see him as our mentor because he understands the fact that disobedience upon an unjust law is indeed the greatest respect for the law?
“In 1965 or so, with a gun, he invaded a radio station and refused the announcement of Akintola as the winner of an election.
“History is such a beautiful spectacle and I implore my ‘Egbon’ and the esteemed laureate to oblige the young people who are saying that on the mandate given to Peter Obi to stand.”
“When those who are merchants in electoral larceny took their mandate with hot coal they can’t close their hands because we are going to take it in the court.”