Otono123:
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RabiuAnka:
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has made good his promise to throw away his U.S residency green card and leave the United States, if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
This came as he said that Nigeria was sinking when Buhari took power .
Soyinka had vowed that he would give up his permanent US residency should Trump win the election, as a way of protesting Trump becoming the President of the United States.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been,’’ the 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time, he said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card.
“It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card… but I have had enough of it,” he said.
Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a term as scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.
In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, social media had trended with calls by Nigerians on the laureate to destroy his US permanent residency.
He, however, fired back that he reserved the right to determine when to destroy the document.
Soyinka also said yesterday that he was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari had lost popularity just 18 months into office, given the high expectations that greeted his coming to power
He said: “There’s nothing surprising to me about his losing popularity, it should be expected. People wanted change, that word was not just a slogan, it was a promise.’’
Soyinka, who noted that Nigeria was sinking when Buhari took power, said But when he took over power, said:
“Fulfilling political promises when you take over the reins of power and you have to clean up a lot of mess, it’s not easy,” said the Nobel prize-winning author.
The ex-military ruler has seen his approval ratings decline in recent months from 80 percent last year to 41 percent this September, according to analysis firm BMI Research.
Soyinka said while Buhari was the better choice of the two candidates in last year’s election where he squared off against ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, it was high time the country weaned itself off leaders with military backgrounds.
“I was not particularly enamoured of the idea of a military person continuing — for heaven’s sake, it’s been too long.
“I feel very passionate that it’s about time that we eliminated the last vestiges of military control, of military representation. It’s as if there are no brains outside the military,’’ he said.http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/nigeria-sinking-buhari-took-power-soyinka/

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ZKOSOSO:
Thank God Buhari the 'Messiah' arrived quickly to 'salvage' the situation .....

Sometimes I wonder if Wole knows much of the suffering and extreme hunger in the land...

UnknownT:
Won't be surprised if he relocates to SA to take a job there. One of our universities in Nigeria should engage him nah!!! Prof. should drop "some knowledge" for our Nigerian University students before he finally retires or is called to glory

Mrjo:
knw this that man is beyond that age @ 80 plus what did u still want from him? Eg: he siad "we have 2 candidate" while as we hav 11, so is that what u want him to teach our futụre generation?

Chiefpriest1:
That is true.

But he was elected to stop the downward sloping, yet he has been behaving like someone who never prepared for office, even after trying for 12 years.

Buhari had an emergency to deal with, yet his actions showed that of a man who thought he had eternity to make a difference.

Nigeria was sinking , now it's almost sunk. No thanks to his predecessor and him.

Are these people who have paraded themselves as our leaders since the return of democracy really the best we have.

Answer is NO. They are only qualified for our WORST eleven. Nigeria can do better.

If we have the first African to win a nobel laureate in literature, richest black man here in our country, it means we are not useless after all.

We need to get our politics right. I am sure the parties are already preparing another set of mumus for 2019. In the end, our choices are always limited in every election.

jomoh:
I vowed never to join the group of wailers unroll after three years of PMBs administration knowing fully my views during the campaign that brought PMB to Aso Rock simply because I will not destroy what I help build. At the least not until I see that the cause is lost.

People with shallow minds that lacks the deep understanding of the real "cause" of the mess we are in and how we for here are mostly the ones shouting.

With all the corruption and embezzlement that Nigerians in power are known for, only a fool will believe all the campaign promises made during the election. Donald trump rode to power on the back of his public display of hatred against the blacks, mexicans and Muslims threatening to deport all of them which most of them believed he will do. But even before swearing in, he has back tracked two steps already. First he said he won't deport all of them but only the illegal immigrants. Later he said it is not all illegal immigrants but the ones with criminal records. That is one out of the many promises he made that he has back tracked on.

That is a country that is well organised and have the capacity to to almost whatever they set their sights on.

Better organised countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia and the likes are feeling the effect of drop in crude oil prices. Reason for the reduction of their daily production for the first time ever. Just to force up the price of crude in the market. How much more a prodigal country like Nigeria that squandered all it's earned riches.

Anyone that believes the present government can make any tangible change in the First 3years of it's administration is to me a big FOOL.

I was in Abuja during the campaign and election but foreseeing the impending hardship that will fall on the Abuja economy I relocated back to my strong base in Ibadan where I can get strong supports. Now the people I worked with are complaining and finding it hard to make ends meet.

Presently the economy might be in shambles but it has always been like this. The only difference is that the free money that were being thrown around to paper over the deep underlying cracks are no more there to throw around. I have been surviving it for a long time, Long before PMB came. So if I have to manage for PMBs first three and half years, after which I can conveniently conclude if PMB had failed or succeeded, it won't kill me.

I never regretted helping to send the theiving slowpoke and his gang of bandits back to his otuoke village.

Atiku2019:
We All Know it was sinking, but right now we are drowning so fast like a piece of rock thrown into a River .



#Atiku2019

Otono123:
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SirJeffry:
Don't worry Prof, you will understand it better by the time you stay very well, shebi you don tear your US green card.

Atiku2019:
We All Know it was sinking, but right now we are drowning so fast like a piece of rock thrown into a River .



#Atiku2019

Myself2:

Wole Soyinka the shameless liar that has made a fool of himself wants to distract Nigerians from holding him to account to fulfil his stuupid threat to tear the American passport.Mumu ,you for try am nahhh,whether you no go hear wehnnn

GossipHeart:


When Goodluck Jonathan was the President

$1 was 150 naira (now 470 naira)

One loaf of Bread was 100 naira (now 500 naira)

One bag of rice was 6000 naira (now 50 thousand naira)

One litre of fuel was 80 naira (now 300 naira)

One cup of garri was 30 naira (now 400 naira)

One pure water was 5 naira (now 30 naira)

One baby goat was 300 naira (now 9 thousand naira)

One old layer chicken was 500 naira (now 5,000 naira)

Goodluck Jonathan invented Boko Haram

Goodluck Jonathan killed Osama bin laden

Goodluck Jonathan killed Yar'adua

Turn to your neighbor and ask him/her, have you blamed Goodluck Jonathan today ??


Goodluck Jonathan don suffer for these zombie hands, they must blame him for everything

Chiefpriest1:
That is true.

But he was elected to stop the downward sloping, yet he has been behaving like someone who never prepared for office, even after trying for 12 years.

Buhari had an emergency to deal with, yet his actions showed that of a man who thought he had eternity to make a difference.

Nigeria was sinking , now it's almost sunk. No thanks to his predecessor and him.

Are these people who have paraded themselves as our leaders since the return of democracy really the best we have.

Answer is NO. They are only qualified for our WORST eleven. Nigeria can do better.

If we have the first African to win a nobel laureate in literature, richest black man here in our country, it means we are not useless after all.

We need to get our politics right. I am sure the parties are already preparing another set of mumus for 2019. In the end, our choices are always limited in every election.

Atiku2019:
We All Know it was sinking, but right now we are drowning so fast like a piece of rock thrown into a River .



#Atiku2019

TruthNigeria:


You're just amazing....more satisfying with your comments than having a breakfast. 1love

iokpebholo:
Oga wole pls where is ur America green card? Hypocrite.

GossipHeart:


When Goodluck Jonathan was the President

$1 was 150 naira (now 470 naira)

One loaf of Bread was 100 naira (now 500 naira)

One bag of rice was 6000 naira (now 50 thousand naira)

One litre of fuel was 80 naira (now 300 naira)

One cup of garri was 30 naira (now 400 naira)

One pure water was 5 naira (now 30 naira)

One baby goat was 300 naira (now 9 thousand naira)

One old layer chicken was 500 naira (now 5,000 naira)

Goodluck Jonathan invented Boko Haram

Goodluck Jonathan killed Osama bin laden

Goodluck Jonathan killed Yar'adua

Turn to your neighbor and ask him/her, have you blamed Goodluck Jonathan today ??


Goodluck Jonathan don suffer for these zombie hands, they must blame him for everything

DABMarkNig2019:
However Nigeria has sunk completely under the daura dullardeen.
When will these desperate power grabbers stop blaming GEJ for their failures and take responsibility for their actions and inactions?

Afonjas are like most women that doesn't know what they want and cannot be pleased. Both the young and old think alike.