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Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has reportedly said that Igbos tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them.
Soyinka also added that Igbos “suffer from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for
personal financial gain”, according to The Cable.
Soyinka is said to have made the statements on April 29, 2015, while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral
Ironies’ at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
“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,” Soyinka said.
He also spoke on the victory of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 elections saying that the re-election of
President Goodluck Jonathan would have been a disaster
“Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated
disaster and failure. 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,” he said.
Soyinka also said that during Jonathan’s administration, Nigeria witnessed impunity and authoritarian madness.

http://pulse.ng/local/wole-soyinka-igbos-vote-with-their-stomachs-nobel-laureate-reportedly-says-id3728341.html

I make bold to say that Igbos saw this mess we are into long time ago, but d self acclaimed sophisticated people didn't.

Heheheheheheheeeee....


How much is Soyinka buying fuel now?

make I dey fly?? mtcheeew we knw Igbo people are very greedy rubbish!!

don't mind me I love Igbo people too

Op you are a big dunce coz that story turned out to be false as Soyinka never said anything of such, and the original news source of the falsehood (theCable.ng) apologized to Soyinka and retracted the fake news. Smh.

https://www.thecable.ng/thecable-apologises-soyinka-igbo-story

This was published on 05/05/2015, you just want to cause issues.

odikimi:
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has reportedly said that Igbos tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them.
Soyinka also added that Igbos “suffer from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for
personal financial gain”, according to The Cable.
Soyinka is said to have made the statements on April 29, 2015, while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral
Ironies’ at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
“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,” Soyinka said.
He also spoke on the victory of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 elections saying that the re-election of
President Goodluck Jonathan would have been a disaster
“Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated
disaster and failure. 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,” he said.
Soyinka also said that during Jonathan’s administration, Nigeria witnessed impunity and authoritarian madness.

http://pulse.ng/local/wole-soyinka-igbos-vote-with-their-stomachs-nobel-laureate-reportedly-says-id3728341.html

Modified

Igbos had made their decisions and should be respected. Mind you not all igbos voted for GEJ.

asuustrike2009:
Modified

Igbos had made their decisions and should be respected. Mind you not all igbos voted for GEJ.

the "money minded"Igbo didn't vote for a dullard,but the Einstein soyinke did,by the way how much is he buying fuel

erusen:
the "money minded"Igbo didn't vote for a dullard,but the Einstein soyinke did,by the way how much is he buying fuel

Leave dat hypocrite alone jare. He's silence on scarcity palava but had it being during GEJ's regime, he would have being blasting him. I wonder why NLC and TUC are silence? Have they suddenly become dumb? Common electricity tariff, they just barked like toothless dog.

Karma is a bittch. Suffering is hitting the southwest and north so hard and they are ashamed to speak out, but continue to die in silence.
This is just the beginning.

erusen:
the "money minded"Igbo didn't vote for a dullard,but the Einstein soyinke did,by the way how much is he buying fuel

and you thought you've made sense


you mean Jonathan can loot as he wants as long as it doesn't affect fuel uh

i'm not disappointed though!

#iflywithbuhari

Two evil

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