{"id":34365,"date":"2024-05-28T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-soyinka-should-no-longer-be-taken-seriously-charly-boy\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:01:06","slug":"why-soyinka-should-no-longer-be-taken-seriously-charly-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-soyinka-should-no-longer-be-taken-seriously-charly-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Soyinka should no longer be taken seriously \u2013 Charly Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Maverick singer Charly Boy has urged Nigerians not to take Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, seriously.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Soyinka, who turns 90 in a few days, might be suffering from brain deterioration due to ageing.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed this could be the reason for his rhetorics and actions in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old singer said Nigerians only have to worry about how Soyinka\u2019s family and close friends cannot ward off agents of desperate politicians who are exploiting the Nobel laureate\u2019s \u201cmedical situation\u201d to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>On his Instagram page, Charly Boy wrote: \u201cProf. Wole Soyinka is aged over 80yrs, even tending towards 90yrs. For his age, some level of brain deterioration is not unexpected. His rhetorics and actions in recent times is suggestive of deteriorating brain desease, and as such he shouldn\u2019t be taken too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we shld be worried about as well-meaning Nigerians, is how his family and close friends can\u2019t ward off agents of desperate politicians who are bent on exploiting his medical situation to their advantage, no matter how low it sinks the once respected Nobel laureate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why Soyinka should no longer be taken seriously \u2013 Charly Boy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maverick singer Charly Boy has urged Nigerians not to take Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, seriously. 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