₦airaland Forum

blueskies:
. Srzly I dnt understand these folks. How is it deir problem? Someone made a speech, a well respected achiever worldwide, he wasn't castigative neither was his speech derogatory towards anyone. He gave out his opinion on a matter and am sure before he concluded to such, he had weighed his words and options and felt it wnt av any negative effect on him or on anyone. So why r pple so quick to judge without thorough and deep thinking. Many of them base their reasonin and response on sentiments. He's a human rights activist and he was trying to pass a message across, besides he's welcomed anywhere because he's a well-respected academician and he has wat it takes to deliver

As a well respected achiever a mentor ad respected academician wit followerz who belive in him ad redy to learn from him.He shuld b careful wit hiz words
Wole iz my man I respect him a lot as well as sum pipul yarbing him here.D respect we hav 4 him was y we listend to him ad even belived hiz wordz when he said he will tear hiz green card.
Hadid bin we don't luv ad respct him we won't listen to him ad believe him or hold him accountable 4 hiz wordz.
Hiz an honorable man wit great achievment ad followerz.Honourable men do wot dey say or dey don't speak atall so datz y I am vexed dat he dint do wot he said.
I feel d best tin 4 d white hair gang prof to do iz to keep kwayet.

Ndolarr:
Whatever some idiots say on this platform, Soyinka is a great Nigerian and is entitled to take personal decisions without query from busy-bodies, meddlesome-interlopers! I agree with him that majority of Nigerians have a slavish mentality and are moronic!! If not, politicians will induce voters with 200 naira, get their votes and turn around to loot the treasury and throw them into deeper poverty. Just this morning, jollof rice, egusi soup and pounded yam were reported to have been imported into the country with the scarce forex, yet our manufacturers are crying for forex to import machineries. Fuel importers stole the country blind under government subsidy policy, yet none of them has gone to jail. Many government agencies spent 450 billion naira revenue generated by them instead of remitting same into Federation Account. Jubrin made startling revelations about the massive stealing happening in the National Assembly, he was suspended and Nigerians are unperturbed!!! All these rubbish are happening, yet our moronic mentality will not allow us to be outraged and demand for speedy trial of culprits. Instead, Soyinka's decision to tear his green card interests us more! Very shameful!!

I luv ur point dem especially d garri ad egusi soup importation ad scarcity of forex to import machineries.however plz dnt 4get dat u ad I ad diz same white hair gang proff u ar defending voted diz confused goverment into power.
He was as active as a volcano during d lst election.As d new govt he supportd came in ad startd fumbling he ran away,ad even refused to speak up aginzt the weak govt.I tink he deservz all d insult.

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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has threatened to exit Nigeria as a response to the media harassment to which Nigerians have subjected him.

Speaking to reporters today at a media event held at Freedom Park on Lagos Island, Mr. Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, said he was embarrassed to share a country with some "imbeciles and morons."

He said, "I should not be exiting the United States but Nigeria because the people on behalf of whom one has struggled all one’s life can be so slavish in mentality as to start querying the right of their champion to free speech."

He continued, "I am embarrassed to occupy the same space as some imbeciles and morons," adding that the exit from Nigeria can be "internal" or "external".

Mr. Soyinka, a retired professor from Obafemi Awolowo University and numerous universities in the U.K. and US, also threatened to move the residency of his foundation, the Wole Soyinka Foundation, out of Nigeria and dared anybody to criticize his decision.

"If the board agrees," he said, "I will move the residency of my foundation out of the country," he said.

He added that on the inauguration of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, he would hold a private funeral wake to mourn the death of common sense in Nigeria.

The Nobel laureate expressed irritation at many Nigerians who had taken to the social media to criticize his comment to leave the United States of America and tear his green card after Mr. Trump was declared winner in the November 8, 2016 presidential election in the US.

He said, "We worked to make sure the least important person in our society enjoys freedom of expression. When I decide to take this same action [use his freedom of speech], I don’t want people whom we have fought for to enjoy freedom of expression to start all kinds of vulgar and stupid commentaries.

"Barbarians have taken over this community using the anonymity, most of the time, of the Internet to sit somewhere and start writing rubbish, questioning the right of people like me to express ourselves."

Mr. Soyinka said Nigerians have no right to question his decision to leave the US.

"What is the business of any stupid Nigerian to open his or her mouth to challenge my right? Did you get the green card for me? The arrogance of some Nigerians is overwhelming, and I don’t interfere, so how dare you interfere with me?" he said.

He asked, “Why do Nigerians wail louder than the bereaved?”

Mr. Soyinka said he never wanted the American green card, but was given one by former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, which caused him to christen the document "Jimmy Carter's card."

He said, "I call my green card Jimmy Carter’s card because he got it for me and, as a matter of fact, I did not ask for it."

http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/05/wole-soyinka-berates-nigerian-critics-threatens-exit-nigeria

BaBa plz i have a sonly advice 4 u ad dat iz just keep kwayet ad let time heal ur 4ck up.

uniklinkum:
You are the slo..wpoke and waste of oxygen here, if you read wole earlier statement he quit countries with human rights issues. Which is his personal decision and didn't concern waste of chromosome like you and your herd of cow mentality si.mpletons. If your brains aren't mere artifacts, you would have known that same wole even support the rights of some people to quit this country even when it carries a jail term. That's called a fight for human rights, But will slowpoke like you ever understand. Since the election of drumpf, the increase in the attack on minorities by white supremacists have skyrocketed that's what wole is protesting, but foools like you with no redeeming grace will come to social media and express opinion that make one support the legitimacy of abortion.

Guy live d innocent man joor.wole iz my man but im shayt 4 church use holy water clean yansh.
U call am activizt baa?ok.we get plenty human right abuse here in Nigeria ad Africa.Y im come run leave im activizm go Yankee na?plz dnt tell me he left 4 work tinz o.
We don put baba 4 power make evry body stay enjoy baba togeder joor.
Im wan start to de form vexnation com uze d opportunity run live us again enter anoder betta country or remain 4 yankee.Abi na today Nigerians start to de yab am?I Sabi diz kin brain tactics im wan use jare.diz man too like flenjure.
And I will luv it if u shade more light on the increase in attackz on minoritiz with proof o.

Thiz grumpy old man shuld go ad rest jare.I can't wait 4 u to come bak finally to enjoy d goverment u made us vote in.
There ar serious national problemz u nid to speak up againzt instead of crying over diz passport issue.Abi na dem tell u make u talk say u go destroy ur tin.
Come bak ad enjoy Naija ur country joor.Na we vote baba in so y yu run go Yankee at d first place leave us sef?BABA cultizm