Nobel Laureate and foremost social
critic, Wole Soyinka, is of the
opinion that Nigerians of Igbo extraction
are the only people in the country who
can be predicted accurately.
Delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting
Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at the
Harvard University Hutchins Centre for
African & African American Research,
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the
revered scholar described people from
that part of the country as “greedy”.
“Igbos remained unrepentant and
resolute towards their strategic
objective of secession at worst; or a
Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at
best,” he said at the lecture, which held
on April 29.
“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.”
Commenting on the result of Nigeria’s
presidential election, Soyinka said the
re-election of President Goodluck
Jonathan would have been
“disastrous”, as Muhammadu Buhari,
Nigeria’s president-elect, is better
option.
“Muhammadu Buhari was the better of
the two evils as the incumbent
president Goodluck Jonathan had been
an unmitigated disaster and failure,” he
said.
“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.”

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