Wole Soyinka has announced his resignation as Chairman of the board of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding following a protracted leadership tussle with ex Osun state governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
In a statement on Saturday, Mr. Soyinka said that he was frustrated and embarrassed at the continued reference of a court suit involving Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former governor of Osun State, and the CBCIU as a leadership tussle.
”This is painful reductionism,” Mr. Soyinka, a professor of Comparative Literature, said in the letter dated July 14, 2015.
“In any case, I am left with no choice but to openly demand of the governor of Osun State the immediate and formal acceptance of my resignation letter from CBCIU chairmanship.”
Messrs Soyinka and Oyinlola had been engaged in a war of words over the headship of the Oshogbo-based CBCIU, a category 2 facility under the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, established in 2009.
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