Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, on Thursday for a private meeting.
He arrived the Aso Rock Villa at noon and went straight in for the meeting.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, the 82-year-old playwright said he had come to “discuss national and international matters, general matters, that’s all”.
He declined to give further details but promised he would hold a press conference in about a week’s time.
“You can ask me any question then, but now, please I will just like to get away,” Soyinka said.
Soyinka has recently criticised the Buhari-led administration over its inability to stop the activities of murderous herdsmen and clampdown on pro-Biafra agitators.
In May, Soyinka denied endorsing Buhari’s one year in office.
He described reports quoting him as declaring his support to Buhari as a “disgusting forgery”.
“Once again, I notify the security arms of Nigeria about this increasingly obsessed exercise in identity forgery,” Soyinka said in a brief statement.
“I alert the public to beware of the danger this portends in the murky atmosphere of Nigeria’s ongoing politics.
“The sycophants of power and influence will clearly do anything to gain attention and preferment, but they only earn the contempt of decent citizens, including those on whom they foist their unsolicited services.”
