Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka,
declared today, February 5, 2015, that
no one should vote for President
Goodluck Jonathan’s and his
administration in the February 14
general election, saying that there
has been a total failure under the
President’s leadership.
Addressing students, Wole Soyinka said he has sixty reasons not to vote for the Jonathan regime.

“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”, Soyinka told
students at the 2015 edition of Vision of the Child (VOTC), a yearly programme inaugurated in 2012.

Laying emphasis on the missing Chibok
Girls, Wole Soyinka said, the schoolgirls
kidnapped on 14 April last year were
sent on a mission to acquire an
education, but ended up being
kidnapped.

“And the government of this nation
failed to show leadership. So anyone
who says after that event that I will
vote or cast my vote or encourage
anyone to vote for this regime must be
living in Sambisa forest,” Soyinka said,
referring to a forest in Borno State
where the Chibok girls are believed to
be held by Boko Haram.

“There has been a failure of leadership.
Our children whom you represent
today have been betrayed ,” Soyinka
said, adding that no appropriate action
was taken to rescue them.
Soyinka said it took the Jonathan
government ten days to even accept
that the Chibok girls were missing.

“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,” Soyinka said.

On a more relaxed note, Soyinka
laughed off those who had claimed on
the social media that he was dead,
telling journalists at the event that they should not misquote him. If they do, he
added, he will rise from the dead to
correct them.

Prof. Wole Soyinka, who earlier last
month, dismissed claims that he had
endorsed some politicians as his
presidential and governorship
candidates ahead of the February
elections. But with his lambast at the
administration of President Goodluck
Jonathan, no one seems to know where
he stands now.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2Ap8dOxVc&feature=youtu.be.

I will like to hear from Soyinka who he is endorsing?

It's too easy to say don't vote Jobathan or any President.

Who do we vote and why is more like it.

That's obviously his persona problem, as for me! I have 120 reasons to vote GEJ....fix it prof. Keep your reasons to yourself vote whoever you to vote for, but pls allow us to vote for our own candidates, you are good in writing stories I give it to you but u are not any good as a politician, concentrate on where your strengths lies, do what you know how to do best and definitely that's not politics