ACTIVIST OR POLITICS

"without hope, the days roll by, girls become women and boys become old men, full of memories of what life should be, the only legacy left..." 


The award winning Nobel prize for literature winner, Prof Wole Soyinka has eventually found his voice to making a political statement in the form of the DFPF (Democratic Front for a Peoples Republic). His reasons for turning his head the way of politics at the age of 75 is based on his aim to tackle corruption and improve health and education in Nigeria. Over a decade ago under the IBB regime prof Wole Soyinka accepted the offer to serve this nation, or help himself to a share of "The National Cake", but much to his surprise he found out that politics is not just all that meets the eye and indeed is thicker than blood, friendship and religion.
More interesting about the launching of DFPF months to the presidential election is how the party chairman Wole Soyinka intends to attain his goals within the short period of time. As an activist who marched with the SNG (Save Nigeria Group) earlier this year to protest the chilling silence over the whereabouts of the late former president Musa Ya'ardua, and why the constitution wasn't being followed to the latter, the floating of this party goes to show that there might be a few more tricks under his sleeves.
With the launching of Wole Soyinka's DFPF, the 2011 elections now have more to contend with. The only hope now is that Wole Soyinka has been able to learn the craft of politics from the right sources as he quotes... "And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others"