Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has described the Igbos as people who can be predicted when it comes to voting. According to him, the Igbos vote based on their stomach and have an incurable money mindedness. Prof. Soyinka said this while delivering a lecture titled 'Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research", in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
"Igbos remained unrepentant and resolute towards their strategic objective of secession at worst; or a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at best,” he said at the lecture which held on April 29.
"The climax of MASSOB’s war against the Nigerian state was the call for sit-ins and civil disobedience that shut down markets and public services, as Igbos stayed at home in a symbolic gesture to assert Biafran independence. The call was honoured by governors in the two principal Ibo states, though without fanfare. The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain. Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated disaster and failure. It was a painful decision to tell people to vote Buhari, but the country needed a new beginning. I was more against Jonathan, than I was pro-Buhari. “Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade a system by which one attains fulfillment, and this is what the nation witnessed time and time again under Jonathan, who was increasingly becoming intolerant of opposition in an escalating streak of impunity and authoritarian madness, which was most blatant and unconscionable. The ‘militricians’ – soldiers turned politicians in power – aren’t looking for excellence; their civilian cohorts are worse. Short cuts and how to circumvent the system for the profit of a few are the norm of governance. Those who do honest work are derided as lacking the skill to fit it. Ironically, things haven’t quite changed a bit after 16 years of democracy in the country.” he said
This prof is a big fool..am sure soon he will b apologizing for this speech....igbo's has their right to vote for their choice candidates so what's d big deal,,,,they all claim they don't like money.......he has no meaning story to write anymore as such has decided to go this road
ReplyDeleteShame on you woke soyinka. .you are just a ranting fool!
ReplyDeleteSo this learned old foolish man called Wole Soyinka Traveled all the way to the U.S to lecture on the topic PREDICTING NIGERIA and it ended up on predicting the Igbo peopleduring elections because according to this man the Igbos vote where their stomach is and he did not tell his listners where the Yorubas and the hausas,the Fulanis and other ethnic groups in Nigeria votes during elections. May be they vote where their anus are.This statement to me is an insult deliberately meted out against the Igbos. I had respect for this learned foolish man but now I have lost every respect I have for him. If he doesen't have something to say in his so called lectures he should better shot up and be quite.
ReplyDeleteHe has nothing to offer us any more in world of literature as such has device another means to get attention...#clueless
DeleteMy fellow Igbos' let us not mind this old fool. His brain is failing him. He can't coordinate or articulate any longer. His speeches are based on his unrepentant hatred for the Igbo nation, but he forgot that God is the Ultimate. He is the one to decide the fate of everyone. We are watching.
ReplyDeleteThis man is a fool. And when fools talk the environment become charged with anger=Monkey.
ReplyDeleteEverything good about the Igbo is the result of envy, jealous and hate speeches. All these hate speeches and jealous will soon end when the come comes to become come in Jesus Christ name.
ReplyDeleteThis white-headed fool has clearlly shown why he is a typical yoruba idiot. He has always examplified a through Yoruba character. They speak with both side of the month. Is it not time you repent of all the evil you carefully brought to NIgerian: u r the founder of curroption and culticism ( 2 C ) in Nigeria. Devil wil visit you soon because you are a symbol of hypocrisy and gross governance in Nigeria. In ur usual character , you will soon visit GMB for porrage.
ReplyDeleteI used to respect Wole Soyinka because of his literary works. Now I have discovered that he just writes in favour of his stomach. He only writes in favour of where he wants to benefit from. He's very tribalistic, ethnocentric & is full of hatred against the Igbos. And is devoid of artistic & creative inspiration, hence he had to travel all the way to the U.S only to speak against the Igbos. I think, he should go home & rest or better still contest for a political position cos I've seen that that is where his interest now lies.
ReplyDeleteHe is a Yoruba man, lazy tribe, if hausa man is leading, Yoruba man will be sing and shouting Hausa man is the best n when another tribe is leading they will change their tone, this stupid man who in the past was writing against Buhari and calling him a dictator turned now to call him the best candidate.....SABO IS UR SURNAME
ReplyDeleteFrom my experience growing up in the western states, the Yoruba man is most greedy in Nigeria... They love money so much and use propaganda to say igbo love money whereas the igbo man just doesn't joke with his hard earned money... They exercise to much hatred for the igbo tribe, so why they still wanting a united country, abeg division is best answer for this country.
ReplyDelete