12-09-2005, 23:26
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סוינקה מזהיר בפני דיקטטורה !
מנהיג האופוזיציה הניגרית המתוסכל , מוחה בפני הדיקטטורה של המנהיג אולבסאן אובסנגו !קשה לכם להאמין לי , מה? הנה , תקראו בעצמכם! 
Lagos - Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka accused President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday of undermining the judiciary and democracy, and warned of "a creeping dictatorship".
Soyinka criticised Obasanjo for disregarding a Supreme Court order that he release funds to Lagos state. The federal government withheld the money because of a dispute with governor of Nigeria's most populous state over the creation of local councils.
It is the duty of Nigerian political leaders "irrespective of allegiances to initiate steps to protect our joint interests against a creeping dictatorship," said Soyinka.
Averting a potential crisis
He also appealed to Nigerians to speak out to prevent the country from deteriorating like Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe.
"Mugabe started by eroding the judiciary. This is what Obasanjo is doing," he said.
Critics accuse Mugabe of manipulating his country's legal system to keep an iron grip on power.
A spokesperson for Obasanjo, who has won two popular elections, was not immediately available for comment. Other officials said Obasanjo had met with the Lagos governor in recent days and was working to resolve the impasse.
Nobel laureate, pro-democracy leader
Soyinka, who became Africa's first Noble laureate when he won the prize for literature in 1986, is a leader of an opposition coalition of civic and pro-democracy groups pressing for a new constitution.
"The president's conduct remains open to interpretation as a resolve to subvert the democratic edifice for which numerous unsung Nigerians have fought and bled, and for which some have indeed paid the ultimate price," said Soyinka. Soyinka, 71, was for decades a staunch critic of successive military regimes in Nigeria and was detained for two years during the country's 1967to 1970 civil war. He fled the country in 1994 when a military dictatorship declared him an outlaw, returning only when democracy was restored five years later after Obasanjo won his first election. Obasanjo himself was a military leader in the 1970s.
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