{"id":79987,"date":"2025-12-10T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79987"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:48:14","slug":"soyinka-criticises-tinubus-military-deployment-to-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/soyinka-criticises-tinubus-military-deployment-to-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Soyinka Criticises Tinubu\u2019s Military Deployment to Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka on Monday criticised President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to deploy Nigerian troops to Benin Republic following a recent attempted coup.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Awards in Lagos, Soyinka argued that the military response was excessive and unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that Tinubu had sufficient security resources at home to handle the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw a whole battalion of heavily armed personnel around Seyi Tinubu in Lagos,\u201d Soyinka recounted. \u201cThat force alone could have dealt with the insurrection. There was no need to mobilise the Air Force or troops across the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka maintained that the President could have relied on his immediate security circle rather than sending military assets abroad, describing the deployment as disproportionate to the threat.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come amid growing concerns in West Africa over tensions between civilian authorities and military establishments, following a series of attempted coups in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka on Monday criticised President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to deploy Nigerian troops to Benin Republic following a recent attempted coup. Speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Awards in Lagos, Soyinka argued that the military response was excessive and unnecessary. He suggested that Tinubu had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79990,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987\/revisions\/79990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}