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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Igbos vote based on their stomach, they suffer from incurable money mindedness- Wole Soyinka

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

Source: The Cable

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