by Kolapo Olapoju
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said he will not encourage anyone to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan, as he does not deserve a second term.
The world-renowned playwright made the comment while speaking at the 2015 edition of a youth programme titled ‘Vision of the Child’ in Lagos on Thursday, February 5.
Soyinka told his audience that he had 60 reasons why Jonathan should not be re-elected.
He castigated President Jonathan’s failure to rescue the over 200 Chibok girls, who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, in April 2014.
Soyinka said: “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.”
“There has been a failure of leadership. Our children whom you represent today have been betrayed.”
“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.”
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