'Nigeria as a nation, needs competent leaders not just prayers' - Wole Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on relevant authorities to arrest those behind the bombings at a motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which left scores dead and many injured.
Soyinka, who was a keynote speaker at a colloquium with the theme, Fundamental Imperatives of Cohabitation, Faith and Secularism, organised by Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, CBCIU, Osogbo said Nigeria as a nation in war, needs competent leaders and not just prayers to survive.

He however countered a recent newspaper report, which quoted him as saying the ongoing events in the nation need prayers.

"I have never said prayer can help resolve the security challenges facing Nigeria.

"I believe the situation must be tackled without partisanship and all these uninformed comments cannot help the situation.

“We should wake up to the reality. Nigeria is in war and only competence can solve the problem, not prayers," he said.

The playwright explained that what is going on the country can be attributed to lack of competent leaders.