“For anyone to think or to put words in my mouth suggesting that I will vote or encourage anyone to vote for this regime is a travesty of intelligence.” – Prof Wole Soyinka tells us how he really feels. More on the click.
As the race to see who will be the next President of Nigeria heats up, statemen and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has stated unequivocally that he’s not in support of a Goodluck Jonathan reelection, calling the current administration a failure in leadership. As the Punch reports:
[At] a gathering of youths at a programme titled ‘Vision of the Child’ in Lagos on Thursday, [Prof. Wole Soyinka] had 60 reasons why Jonathan should not be returned to office on February 14 when the presidential election would hold in the country.
Although Soyinka did not list the 60 reasons, he was specific on one: The April 14 abduction of over 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram insurgents from their hostel in Chibok, Borno State.
“I will not vote and I will not encourage anyone to vote for the continuation of this government, simply because your colleagues numbering over 200 were kidnapped,” he said.
The playwright, who last December described the Jonathan administration as being worse than Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, stated the President’s inability to locate and free the abducted girls represented leadership failure.
A the event, he further articluted his position with:
“It took the Jonathan government 10 days to even accept that the Chibok girls were missing. After that dereliction of duty; after that failure of leadership, after that betrayal of our future, for anyone to think or to put words in my mouth suggesting that I will vote or encourage anyone to vote for this regime is a travesty of intelligence.”
A “travesty of intelligence”! I feel like that should be a hashtag on Twitter.
What say you? Do agree with Prof?
