Lere Olayinka, Media aide to Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose, has said Professor Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Prize was rigged. Olayinka has been a rabid critic of the playwright and Africa’s first winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature ever since Soyinka grudgingly supported Muhammadu Buhari, over Goodluck Jonathan, in the 2015 presidential election which Buhari won.

Olayinka unleashed a twitter rant on Tuesday, alluding to Professor Soyinka’s recent outburst against Nigerians who criticized him for not ripping his American Green Card into shreds as soon as Donald Trump was elected the United States president last month. Soyinka, in protest for Trump’s campaign that was centred on racism and insults for all manner of groups, had vowed to leave America for good if the citizens made the mistake of electing Donald Trump. While he made the threat, most opinion polls showed Donald Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, leading and was going to win.

Soyinka was later subjected to mockery by majority of Trump’s supporters in Nigeria. And few days after he wrote a scathing essay pushing back against their harassment on Social Media, he confirmed to an AFP journalist in South Africa that he had made good his promise by tossing the Green Card away. Then, few days after, he described as an embarrassment the idea that he shares same country with the ‘imbeciles and morons’ who keep harassing him.

Olayinka reacted on Twitter by insinuating that Soyinka’s Prize was a rigged one. His tweet:

The day Prof Wole Soyinka joined in the selling of @MBuhari to Nigerians, I concluded that his Nobel laureate may have been rigged.#Dazzol

— Lere Olayinka – Aresa 1 (@OlayinkaLere) December 5, 2016

Earlier, he had also hinted at his disgust for Soyinka’s endorsement of Buhari during the presidential election. He tweeted;

When you are operating under the ANOINTING of a RIGGED Nobel Laureate, there is no way you won't say Nigerians are morons.
Hisssssssssh.

— Lere Olayinka – Aresa 1 (@OlayinkaLere) December 6, 2016