Wole Soyinka Claims There Was a Plan to Annul 2023 Presidential Election

Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday, said there was a conspiracy to annul the 2023 presidential election.

While referring to the 1993 election cancelled by former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, Soyinka said, “History was about to repeat itself as some people were determined to take Nigeria back to those days.”

The Nigerian playwright who spoke on Television on Wednesday alleged that there was a conspiracy from the very beginning before the election to make sure the elections did not take place or that even if the voting did take place, that everything is reverted to what happened under Babangida.

He added that to him, “It was no longer a contest between individuals, but a contest between the so-called interim political party and democracy.

You will recall that the Supreme Court had in October 2023 dismissed the cases of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the LP challenging the declaration of Tinubu as winner of the February 25 presidential poll.

A seven-judge panel ruled without merit the opposition appeals over claims of fraud, electoral law violations, and Tinubu’s ineligibility to run for president.