Soyinka received the Nobel Prize in 1986.
Professor Wole Soyinka has said that tackling corruption would handle electoral rigging that has dented Nigeria’s democratic system.
The Nobel Laureate made this recognized whereas talking on the 60th birthday colloquium of the Executive Editor, The News/PM News, Kunle Ajibade.
Soyinka stated: “If we will remedy problems with corruption, we may also be addressing instances of election rigging. This is as a result of there's a direct nexus between that stage of corruption and the degradation of democratic course of that we've witnessed within the nation.
“If we had solved the cases properly, it would have helped curb corruption and solve the issue of democratic failure in Nigeria.”
Speaking on his pondering earlier than the EFCC prosecuted former Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, Soyinka hinted that he believed high echelon within the pressure had been untouchable.
“Among those who I imagine had been untouchable earlier than had been the police however not those who had been on the streets harassing and amassing cash from folks. I do know that of all authorities establishments, the police had been usually concerned in profiling corrupt individuals. But the query that later baffled me was who then corrupted the police? Who made certain that the companies implementing legislation had been corrupt?
“And that was why when I met former EFCC chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu after former IGP, Tafa Balogun was arrested, I emphasised that the job of fighting corruption doesn’t end with the person holding the money but also how he got the money or how the money got into his bank account,” he stated.