Nigeria: Soyinka to Drag Obasanjo to Court Over Library

15 August 2008

Abeokuta — Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday declared that arrangements had been concluded by him and some other academicians in the cultural field to drag former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the court of law over his controversial Presidential Library.

Addressing a press conference in Abeokuta, Soyinka, who descended heavily on Obasanjo over his controversial Presidential Library and museum, hammered that Obasanjo's on-going efforts to incorporate the archival materials of Ulli and Georgina Bier into the Library was fraudulent.

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