From The Cable; 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
What about d yorubas are they not predictable too? I always knew d Southwest would vote Buhari bcos they've seen a Yoruba name In d person of Osibanjo. He didn't need to attack an entire race like that tho. I see senility setting in fast. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
ReplyDeleteI hv said it before,,this man is a disgrace,,he does not know d value of his worth...soon he will come out to apologize for his speech maybe this time he will blame it on alomo bitters......the people that cast their vote went for their choice of candidate they feel will favour them.....beside,they keep telling us d igbo man loves money n yet fashiola is bleeding them dry through tax....am disappointed to hear this from a well know Prof....old age is affecting his brain...
ReplyDeleteSee this old fool o he better respect him self
ReplyDeletePlease stop calling him fool, haba! Is not your mate now
ReplyDeleteLol bros
DeleteNa only ibo like money, am ibo and am proud, so oga wole go hang ursef for transformer,haha,wetin ds tribe do una,yorubas r known to be saboteurs,if una no like money, y una dey work?put ibo man for dry land,he will make wealth out of it,OK una get slot of vp, anybody complain? U will still see d ibis flourish, any way na pepper eye
ReplyDeleteHe's no fool , its his opinion that's all
ReplyDeleteFool is evn a beta name for him. Dis man nah goat......I hate wen u insult an entire race..... evrybody lik money.... nd evry1 voted for who dey ar pleased wit. tats why its called free nd fair....dis man shld jump into de pacific jor.. educated odee lik him.. me am delta ooo bt I love money pass ma babe
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