Soyinka gives up UNESCO centre chair

Prof. Wole Soyinka

So we gathered from the Vanguard Papers that Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Saturday, resigned as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, two days to a hearing at the Federal High Court, Osogbo, in a case between the centre and the Attorney General of Osun State.
We learnt that the case has the Attorney General of Osun State as the first defendant, while the CBCIU and others are the plaintiffs.
The chairmanship of the board had sparked a bitter war of words between former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Soyinka.
Oyinlola, who was the Governor of Osun State at the time the centre was established, was the chairman of the board. But Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who took over from Oyinlola, appointed Soyinka as the chairman of another board of the centre.
Soyinka recently accused Oyinlola of carrying on illegally as the chairman of the board of the UNESCO-affiliated centre, but Oyinlola, who showed documents which authorised him to be the permanent chairman of the board, countered the professor’s claim

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