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''If Soyinka had frowned at Buhari’s policies, he had the harshest words for the agenda of his ‘corrective’ rule and the selective treatment he meted out to politicians of Southern extraction upon taking power. Stories were told about how Alhaji Shehu Shagari whom he overthrew as Head of State was kept in cozy house arrest in Ikoyi and prominent Northerners like Umaru Dikko and National Secretary of his party, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Uba Ahmed, were allowed to escape to freedom overseas. Paradoxically, prominent Southerners like Shagari’s powerless Vice President Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kirikiri prisons''.