Soyinka spoke in an interview with BBC News Pidgin monitored by Africa Today News.
He warned against another civil war if nothing was quickly done to address the herdsmen crisis rocking the nation.
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Soyinka said, ‘We may enter a phase of serial skirmishes which may get more and more violent and develop – I hate to use the word – may develop into a civil war and a very untidy and messy one at that. That is my biggest fear.’
Oyo and Ondo states have been in the eye of the storm lately over security challenges and the moves to check the activities of killer herdsmen.
A popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, had issued a seven-day notice to quit to herdsmen accused of crimes in the Ibarapa area of Oyo and enforced same.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK