How 2023 Polls Were Almost Annulled – Soyinka
POLITICS DIGEST – Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has revealed that there was an alleged conspiracy to annul the 2023 general elections.
Soyinka made this allegation in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday.
He said, “An attempt was made to annul the (2023) election even before it took place. There were statements from respectable people who, for reasons best known to them, were calling for an interim government, and this was opposed.
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“No sooner was the voting over that we had a letter directed to the then-president calling for the annulment of the result, even before there was time for verification, annulment through further examination of papers and all.
“I’m alleging that there was a conspiracy from the beginning, even before the election, to make sure that elections did not take place and that everything would happen;
“… just like under Babaginda, where we all woke up and discovered that, even though the elections had been tabulated, suddenly it was annulled.
“History was about repeating itself, and some people were determined to take us back,” he said.
