Nigerian music veteran and activist, Charly Boy, has expressed disappointment with the decision of federal government to rename the National Arts Theatre in Lagos after Prof Wole Soyinka.
The media personality took to his Twitter page on Friday, July 12 and stated that henceforth, he will no longer accord any respect to the Nobel Laureate.
CorrectNG recalls that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had in celebration of Soyinka’s 90th birthday, announced the renaming of the facility after the author.
Reacting, Charly Boy wrote; “Uncle WOLE I henceforth withdraw all the respect I once had for you. When late Jimmyjohnson talked about you in the 90s, I thought he was only yabbing you. Wow! How some of our MIGHTYs have fallen, for beans, ewa, dodo, is it for rice’?”
This is not the first time he is tackling the playwright, as he had once said there is a new awakening and as such youths will no longer tolerate or respect ‘yeye elders’.
Charly Boy sent a message in response to a viral interview by Soyinka where he fumed about the fact that youths insult him over his political views.
“I didn’t read all these [insults], but of course, some links were sent to me, especially when facts were ‘being manufactured’.
“When I read these things, I was disgusted. There’s no other word for it. I really was disgusted and I know that it was orchestrated.
“I know that there is a relay mechanism, which is triggered into action by those who control what we call the trolls of the Internet, and so my disgust and contempt,” Soyinka had said.
Reacting, the musician accused older citizens of mortgaging the future of Nigerian youths, saying that they had taken so much from the country, yet all they gave back was hopelessness, frustration and poverty.
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