{"id":49100,"date":"2021-08-28T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari"},"modified":"2021-08-28T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T16:45:34","slug":"open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari","title":{"rendered":"Open grazing: You\u2019re mentally handicapped \u2013 Soyinka blasts Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of suffering from \u201cmental delusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka was reacting to Buhari\u2019s review of Open Grazing routes in some state of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Berating Buhari for ordering a review of the grazing routes despite public outcry, Soyinka said the President may be suffering from noise deafening.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Lagos, Soyinka said: \u201cIt\u2019s like there\u2019s some delusion about this thing, a kind of mental delusion about this thing. What is it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps the sound, the noise of the wedding bells (Yusuf Buhari) has contributed to the possible impairment of the hearing of the president of this nation. Because he does not seem to hear anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wondered why Buhari was obsessed \u201cabout something which is being rejected, right, left and centre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually the whole nation is screaming we do not want any open cattle grazing whether they go by the name cattle routes or grazing reserves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the all-powerful and untouchable Miyetti Allah, patrons of the murderous Fulani herdsmen, have gone on record that ranching is it,\u201d Soyinka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of suffering from \u201cmental delusion.\u201d Soyinka was reacting to Buhari\u2019s review of Open Grazing routes in some state of the country. Berating Buhari for ordering a review of the grazing routes despite public outcry, Soyinka said the President may be suffering from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,254,4200,2074],"class_list":["post-49100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-open-grazing","tag-soyinka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Open grazing: You\u2019re mentally handicapped \u2013 Soyinka blasts Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of suffering from \u201cmental delusion.\u201d Soyinka w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Open grazing: You\u2019re mentally handicapped \u2013 Soyinka blasts Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of suffering from \u201cmental delusion.\u201d Soyinka w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-28T16:39:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-28T16:45:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-612a680c7889c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Open grazing: You\u2019re mentally handicapped \u2013 Soyinka blasts Buhari\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-28T16:39:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-28T16:45:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-612a680c7889c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\",\"open grazing\",\"Soyinka\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/open-grazing-youre-mentally-handicapped-soyinka-blasts-buhari\",\"name\":\"Open grazing: You\u2019re mentally handicapped \u2013 Soyinka blasts Buhari - 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