Nigerian music veteran and activist Charly Boy has voiced his disappointment with the federal government’s decision to rename the National Arts Theatre in Lagos after Prof. Wole Soyinka.

 

The media personality took to his Twitter page on Friday, July 12, and declared that he would no longer accord any respect to the Nobel Laureate.

Timeless Update recalls that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in celebration of Soyinka’s 90th birthday, announced the renaming of the facility after the author.

 

Reacting, Charly Boy wrote; “Uncle WOLE, I henceforth withdraw all the respect I once had for you. When late Jimmyjohnson talked about you in the 90s, I thought he was only yabbing you. Wow! How some of our MIGHTYs have fallen, for beans, ewa, dodo, is it for rice?”

 

This is not the first time he has criticized the playwright, as he previously stated that there is a new awakening and that youths will no longer tolerate or respect ‘yeye elders.’

 

Charly Boy’s comments were in response to a viral interview where Soyinka expressed frustration about youths insulting him over his political views.

 

“I didn’t read all these [insults], but of course, some links were sent to me, especially when facts were ‘being manufactured’.

 

“When I read these things, I was disgusted. There’s no other word for it. I really was disgusted and I know that it was orchestrated.

 

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