Vote Him Out, Jonathan Has Shown A Total Failure In Leadership - Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, declared on Thursday that no one should vote for the continuation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, saying that there has been a total failure in leadership.

He said he has sixty reasons not to vote for the Jonathan regime.

“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, ” Soyinka told students at the 2015 edition of Vision of the Child (VOTC), a yearly programme inaugurated in 2012.

He said the Chibok girls kidnapped on 14 April of last year were sent on a mission to acquire an education, but ended up being kidnapped.

“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, referring to a forest in Borno State where the Chibok girls are believed to be held by Boko Haram.

“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.

Soyinka said it took the Jonathan government ten days to even accept that the Chibok girls were even missing.

“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.

Soyinka laughed off those who had claimed on the social media that he ‎was dead, telling journalists at the event that they should not misquote him. If they do, he added, he will rise from the dead to correct them.

The 2015 edition of Vision of the Child has for theme “The Road to Sambisa”.

This year, a total of 250 student participants from 60 primary and secondary schools within Lagos attended the interview. The age bracket for the participants was 9 to 12 years.

Their entries were assessed by a panel of eminent judges comprising teachers, artists, child carers and social workers.

The finalists will be invited on the 7 March to the National Conversation Foundation Park. Lekki, and provided with brush, paint and easel, and will be required to illustrate their literary presentation in the complementary medium painting.

This year, 60 finalists were drawn from 35 schools within Lagos State, said Foluke George‎, Festival Secretary and Programme Manager for the Vision of the Child.















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Posted: at 6-02-2015 06:18 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero

All this hilla-hillo will soon be over in couple of days now, the thing don dey bored person self.

Posted: at 6-02-2015 07:52 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

speechless

Posted: at 6-02-2015 07:59 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

wole sayinka abeg you in name of god just shut up ur mounth ok, if you are blind man you no see what is going on in this country abi you wan join yoruba dey play wayo now?

Posted: at 6-02-2015 08:30 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

is not fore jonthan to look for chibok girl try tell the notherner to go and look for the girl they kidnap? abi you nor no say the hausa people bring all this problam wen we get for this country?

Posted: at 6-02-2015 08:37 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

ok

Posted: at 6-02-2015 10:12 AM (10 years ago) | Hero

You don't know the people behind the so called democracy you enjoyed today, you don't know the people who stood against injustice during the military regime in Nigeria and it means you don't know the history of your country and you don't love your country. If your father had fought to safe this country like Wole Soyinka did or is doing, we might probably not be in the situation we are now..Remember he protested with people like Pastor Tunde Bakare to bring GEJ to power after Yaradua's death,people you all refer to now as enemies GEJ..

Posted: at 6-02-2015 11:26 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

Oga prof, now I know you are a card caring member of apc. You know as much as most people in the north east know that chibok girls kidnap was a grand design by apc to rubbish the fed govt. that's why they never blame the governor but only the fed govt. thereris god oooooo.

Posted: at 6-02-2015 05:02 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

MY FELLOW NIGERIANS........WOLE IS RIGHT...FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND JUST.....

VOTE JONA THE MEDIOCRE OUT....HA HA HA

Posted: at 6-02-2015 09:04 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Hey bullock ..... Wot is going on this country positively  .... You are ve a gutless post .....You have been utterly ,irrevocably, un apologetically brainwashed......  Bigot without sense. Wot has tribe got to do with the post here ....... Comment according to suitation on ground .... Dunce  drunker !

Posted: at 6-02-2015 09:26 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac