Osinbajo Award: We Were Wrong, Wole Soyinka Centre Retracts Statement

Osinbajo at a meeting. Source: Twitter

Sodiq Oyeleke

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism has said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chose not to attend its presentation of Anti-Corruption Defender Award to him.

Among the reasons he gave was that it would be “insensitive” to attend the event with the recent development concerning Sowore’s rearrest.

In a statement on Tuesday, WSCIJ Executive Director, Motunrayo Alaka, said, “We were wrong and the Vice-President is right.

“WSCIJ accepts the statement from the Vice President’s Office as the true position on its intended award to the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.

“An in-house communication gap caused the difference in the use of language and we accept responsibility for this.

“The WSCIJ stands by its intention to award the Vice President the Integrity Specialty of its Anti-Corruption Defender Award.”