By Junior Otabono

Contrary to the ongoing social media hearsay, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has refuted labeling Igbo people as politically naive.
The social media platform was agog with the news that Soyingka, while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research in the United States lambasted the Igbo people for voting for stomach interest.
He was quoted as saying “Igbo remained unrepentant and resolute towards their strategic objective of secession at worst; or a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at best.”
However, Soyinka said in a statement Tuesday denied making such crude comment during his speech.
He strongly warned social media users against peddling unverified rumour.
He said, “I have just read a statement attributed to me on 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 slowpoke – repeat, a slowpoke.
“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,” he added.

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