Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka said matter-of-factly that no one should vote for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government due to the administration’s total failure in leadership.
Soyinka addressed journalists in Lagos, Thursday, at the 2015 edition of Vision of the Child (VOTC), a yearly programme inaugurated in 2012. The Octogenarian disclosed that he has 60 reasons not to vote President Goodluck Jonathan.
“I will not vote and I will not encourage anyone to vote for the continuation of this government, simply because your colleagues numbering over two hundred were kidnapped, ” he revealed.
And the government of this nation failed to show leadership. So anyone who says after that event that I will vote or cast my vote or encourage anyone to vote for this regime must be living in Sambisa forest,” Soyinka said, alluding to Boko Haram enclave habouring Chibok girls.
“There has been a failure of leadership. Our children whom you represent today have been betrayed,” Soyinka said, adding that no appropriate action was taken to retrieve them.
“After that dereliction of duty, after that failure of leadership, after that betrayal for 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, ” Soyinka said
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