SOYINKA TO OBJ-"you are a liar and an illiterate"

Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stated that he has no respect for former
President Obasanjo, who he described as an indescribable liar.
Soyinka talked about the former president on Friday night when he
responded to questions during a programme tagged: ‘An evening
with Wole Soyinka’, organised by Globacom.
Asked to respond to Obasanjo’s assessment of him in the former
president’s book titled ‘My Watch’, where he notes that Soyinka is
good at hunting and wines but a political illiterate, Soyinka said
that he was hardly bothered because he believed that Obasanjo
was a liar.
Soyinka said, “Obasanjo is entitled to his opinion. But the question
is: ‘Who respects the opinion of a liar?’
I can spend the whole night proving that he is a liar. Obasanjo was
once described by an economist, the late Prof Ojetunji Aboyade, as
an economic illiterate. They nearly went into blows that night. It
was Prof. Mabogunje who separated them.
“So, if an economic illiterate calls somebody a political illiterate,
no problem at all.
“In ‘ My Watch’, Obasanjo told the first lie when he said he
deplored lies. Anybody who said he never plotted to have an
unconstitutional third term in office, even as a writer, I need a word
to describe him.”
The former President and the Nobel laureate have been in a running
battle taking swipes at each other over a lingering issue between
them. Obasanjo had once stated that Soyinka once vowed that the
differences between the two of them would not be resolved on
earth.
Obasanjo had also in his book, My Watch, and at public events
described Soyinka as an expert in wine matters than in political
analysis.