According to reports, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that Igbos in Nigeria vote with their stomachs.
Soyinka reportedly made the comment on April 29, 2015, while giving a lecture at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
According to online news platform, The Cable, Soyinka also accused Igbos of being incurably money minded.
Nigerians have responded to the comments via Twitter. Read tweets below:



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Henrì. @SirHenry_
Please what did Wole Soyinka say or do? I hope he's not going about being his tribalistic self again. I just hope.
7:37 PM - 5 May 2015


afrispheric @afrispheric
People like Wole Soyinka will keep making these annoying statements, not knowing they are fueling resentment in certain quarters
7:30 PM - 5 May 2015


Jagaban @sidramatic1
Wole Soyinka is merely saying same things Chinua Achebe said in his book...they both are ethnically divisive and hateful
7:39 PM - 5 May 2015
Demo Adebajo @tkb417
Wole Soyinka has never hidden his bias... LOL old man..
7:43 PM - 5 May 2015

afrispheric @afrispheric
I thought Wole Soyinka is a student of history? What did he base his stupid Igbo statements on? What research did he do?
7:40 PM - 5 May 2015
Bello El-Rufai @B_ELRUFAI
The same shameless "influencers" that were mute when Patience insulted Northern families/children are angry about Wole Soyinka's comment.
7:47 PM - 5 May 2015
TRIUMPHANT LADY EVE @ELLYEVE
So Wole Soyinka, it's only book you've written in life that now qualifies you to call Igbos greedy and a belle faced race.
8:14 PM - 5 May 2015
The Patriot @Psuellayman
Just when we were talking about empirical evidences, Prof Wole Soyinka just showed us an empirical evidence of stupidity & senility.
8:12 PM - 5 May 2015
G-d @martinkem
That Wole Soyinka's Noble Prize expired a long time ago.
8:12 PM - 5 May 2015 · Lagos, Nigeria, Nigeria
LOGOR' @_Logor
And as usual we forget that to Err is human but in our heads Wole Soyinka is divine. The white Afro no be Halo Nwanne. He can yahn BS too.
8:11 PM - 5 May 2015
Chukwuneke Udegbe @chunelhome
Wole soyinka why you of all people.. am so disappointed u have to talk this about #Igbo
8:10 PM - 5 May 2015
#BringBackOurGirls @OKShorty1
Someone on my TL who was at the Harvard event says Wole Soyinka never made those anti-Igbo comments.
8:04 PM - 5 May 2015
afrispheric @afrispheric
Very soon, we will hear that here is no empirical evidence that Wole Soyinka made that hate speech
8:26 PM - 5 May 2015
The Boombox @ayorindeadunse
Somehow I don't think Wole Soyinka said all that.
8:26 PM - 5 May 2015
Igala_Little_Finger @countfreemont
Its always disappointing when people like Wole Soyinka fall far below the standards that they insist on holding other people to. Shame!!!
8:23 PM - 5 May 2015 · Nigeria, Nigeria
Read more at http://peddygist..com/2015/05/read-nigerians-reaction-to-nobel.html#more

U don c nairaland reply to his statements...hmmm u go fear

he is too humble to say such but if he truly said it then Bleep old age. He'll die in few minutes time