Wow! Igbos Voted Based On Their Stomach - Wole Soyinka (Page 3)

Prof Wole, I'm so disappointed in you for disgracing your grey hairs in the public like this. You will really be sorry for that tag on the Igbos. There's need to call you to order, papa because you have joined to compound Nigerian's problems

Posted: at 6-05-2015 09:52 AM (8 years ago) | Newbie

BABA RIDE ON,TELL THEM THE REALITY. ...WOW NAIJA PALS IS FILLED WITH IGBO'S TOOTHLESS DOG..BAU,BAU,BAU,BAU ..YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR ACTION 

Posted: at 6-05-2015 10:15 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

Soyinka. You right baba they are like goat, money ritual people

Posted: at 6-05-2015 10:32 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

you people are so inferior & daft, so ilorin belong to hausa e kwa? igbophobia beclouded your fathers' sense of reasoning so i'm not surprised @your ignorance.
stop spreading lies & face reality for once, I know so many yariba people who could not even identify their origin obviously you are not exceptional.
afonja invited alimi a fulani scholar to learn of his powers, abdusalam, the son of alimi betrayed afonja. some yariba people even consider afonja's betrayal a punishment of some sort for going against tradition. afonja fought with alimi to defeat solagberu. after alimi died, abdusalam invited the jihadist's flag from sokoto and served under the emirate of gwandu. that was how afonja was betrayed and lost control of ilorin, this account is supported by both samuel johnson and professor akinjogbin. u see, u don't even know your true identity. poor u...

Posted: at 6-05-2015 10:54 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

stupid fool

Posted: at 6-05-2015 12:02 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

I AM NOT AN IGBO TO START BUT THIS RASCAL FATHER OF CULTIST THAT HAS KILLED MANY THIS MAN WOLE SOYINKA IS AN ELDER STATE FOOL AS AN ELDER STATE MAN, HE SUPPOSE TO THINK BEFORE HE TALK, BUT NO NO MATTER HOW EDUCATED A YORUBA MAN CAN BE, HE WILL STILL BEHAVE LIKE A FOOL. INSTEAD OF FEELING REGRETFUL FOR THE MENACE CALLED CULTISM HE CREATED AND BE ASHAMED HE IS STILL OPENING THAT STUPID HOLE IN THAT BRAINLESS HEAD. COMMON CULTIST AND A THIEF BECAUSE THE BOYS DEFINITLY STEAL AND GIVE TO THEIR GODFATHER. NO LEVEL BASTARD 

Posted: at 6-05-2015 12:56 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

this is one of the reasons Nigeria and Nigerian can never grow up,1 because of tribalistic sentiment and blunt interference among the people of Nigeria, which are the mainly the WA zo BIA.

Posted: at 6-05-2015 01:05 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

ALSO TELL US WHAT THE HAUSA VOTED FOR IF NOT THEIR BORN TO RULE IDEOLOGY....

Posted: at 6-05-2015 01:41 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie

wole Soyinka is always on point..the ibos are the only tribe that has been wanting to break out of Nigeria for a long time..I use to think that the thought process of the younger ibos were different.Recents event has proved me wrong.No old Yoruba man will stand up and take any form of tribal decision on behalf of the Yoruba tribe unlike what the ibos do..He will be laughed at by majority of the yorubas..My hope is that with the younger generations of ibos will break away from the bondage of these old biafran obsessed generation and embrace  the country Nigeria.

Posted: at 6-05-2015 03:12 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

WHERE IS THE ANTI-IGBO SENTIMENT IN THIS SPEECH? MY OVER-ZEALOUS IGBO BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHO ONLY SEE WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR IN EVERY SPEECH. We must learn to tolerate and respect other tribes. No tribe is better than the other. Success in life as wellas failures has no tribal mark or geographical location. Let's be mindful of our comments. Thank you.

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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has denied comments attributed to him concerning the voting pattern of the Igbo in the 28 March presidential election.
The report, published by TheCable, alleged that he accused the Igbo of voting according to their “stomachs”.
In his response to the story, Soyinka said in a statement: “I have just read a statement attributed to me on something called The CABLE, a news outlet, evidently one of the Internet infestations. My lecture at the Hutchins Centre, Harvard University, was video recorded.
“Anyone who believes what I am alleged to have said must be a moron – repeat, a moron. It is demeaning, sickening and boring to have to deal with these cowards who cannot fight their own battles but must fasten their imbecilic pronouncements on others.
“Only the mentally retarded will credit this comment attributed to me regarding the Ndigbo voting pattern in the last elections. I strongly suspect the author of this despicable concoction, and may make a further statement, once the source is verified.”
Delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the revered scholar said the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan would have been “disastrous”, as Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect, is better option.
“Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated disaster and failure,” he said.
“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 in. Ironically, things haven’t quite changed a bit after 16 years of democracy in the country.”
•Prof. Wole Soyinka
•Prof. Wole Soyinka
He added: “It will not be easy to enthrone democracy as the norm.”
Soyinka who has been labelled the conscience of Nigeria also told the Harvard audience that the ruthless Islamist religious fundamentalism is “the enemy of humanity.”
“We will never get rid of Boko Haram,” Soyinka said, when Hutchins Center’s director, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a former student, longtime friend and colleague of Soyinka asked him to expand on a remark that Boko Haram, and by extension the fundamentalist group ISIS, could create a complete redistribution of power and boundary lines in West Africa.
He described the jihadists who wish to impose Sharia law and ban Western learning across Nigeria as indoctrinated “fanatics who believe that if they die in the cause, they will go straight to heaven,” where they “believe literally in the 77 virgins awaiting their arrival.”
“They do not want to reason — they kill,” said the playwright and poet, urging vigorous international action against Islamist militant groups like Boko Haram, whose campaign of terror in northern Nigeria has included the kidnapping of thousands of women and girls.
“We’ve reached a state where there’s a party of life and a party of death,” he said, and those on the side of life must fight for their belief “as ruthlessly” as the foe they face.
Soyinka, a former political prisoner who became in 1986 the first black African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, spoke in the wake of a historic vote in Nigeria. In a general election at the end of March, opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari, former military ruler of the country, prevailed over incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan by more than 2.7 million votes.
When Jonathan conceded defeat, it marked the first time an incumbent president had been voted from office via the ballot box in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, with the continent’s largest economy.
Soyinka, an outspoken campaigner for human rights and Nigeria’s pre-eminent public intellectual, was invited to give his perspective on the political landscape of a nation troubled by a history of military dictatorship, corruption, and civil strife.

Posted: at 6-05-2015 03:29 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie