Igbos vote based on their stomach, they suffer from incurable money mindedness- Wole Soyinka The Igbo ethnic group does seem to be getting a lot of bashing these days from their countrymen. This time it was Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who said they are probably the only set of Nigerians who are predictable when it comes to voting.
That may not be a bad thing, but then he went on to say, they vote in the direction of their stomachs. In his words, the Igbo are “suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain”. Soyinka said this while delivering a lecture titled, ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research in the United States, according to a gazette by the institution.
He reportedly said: “Igbos remained unrepentant and resolute towards their strategic objective of secession at worst; or a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at best. “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. READ Who Did This To Aki and Pawpaw? “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.
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Posted: at 16-02-2016 07:17 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
dynasty4all at 16-02-2016 07:32 PM (9 years ago) (m)
EDUCATED ILLITERATE, OLD FOOL NO MATTER HOW EDUCATED A YORUBA MAN CAN BE, THAT INBORN FOOLISHNESS IS STILL IN HIM OR HER
Posted: at 16-02-2016 07:32 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
livingstone80 at 16-02-2016 07:36 PM (9 years ago) (m)
Please you need to change your medicine because the old one is working again! Come to Moscow Russia here to see how Yoruba behave because of money! Refer this your statement to Yoruba not Igbo!
Posted: at 16-02-2016 07:36 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming
dynasty4all at 16-02-2016 07:40 PM (9 years ago) (m)
WHEN CHINUA ACHEBE WAS ALIVE, NIGERIA CALLED HIM TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER TO HONOUR HIM BUT HE REFUSED COS HE KNEW THAT THEY WERE NOT DOING THE RIGHT TIME. AN ELDER STATEMAN SUPPOSED TO RESPECT HIMSELF, NOT INVOLVED HIMSELF IN POLITICS BUT THIS TYPICAL YORUBA MAN IS DIFFERENT.
Posted: at 16-02-2016 07:40 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
dis man is he still alive moving around with this his fake spray white hair .oga wen u hv nothing to say just sit and watch the trend ,and never a must to be notice.FINALLY if anytribe needs orientation start from ur villa and all yorubaland that disgrace ur tribe by begging in all the nooks and crannies of this nation \
Posted: at 16-02-2016 08:06 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
nametalkam at 16-02-2016 08:17 PM (9 years ago) (m)
I am very dissapointed to hear this statement from an elders states man like Wole Soyinka, but perhaps he has said it in anger or is he misquoted?
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Posted: at 16-02-2016 08:17 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Mr professor shoyinka or whatever you call yourself, I am sure you have seen the list of those who have duped Nigeria, 98% of them are Housas and Yorubas. After 8 years in power your brother has nothing to show the country for it save that he has used the country money to build his library and many other things....but of course you will not notice that because you are part of it....nonsense.
Posted: at 16-02-2016 08:22 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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