‘I Wole Soyinka Will Not Be Voting For Either Buhari Or Atiku’

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that: ‘I Wole Soyinka
will not be voting for either the two so called contesting
parties. I find both of them worthy of absolute rejection.’
Soyinka made this known in an ongoing interactive session
tagged citizen forum 2019.
He said “It is time for a totally new direction, and when an
alternative emerges, we will give the candidate our backing,”
“For the avoidance of doubt, let me make my position quite
clear because I don’t want any ambiguity; I Wole Soyinka will
not be voting for either the two so called contesting parties. I
find both of them worthy of absolute rejection,” he said.
“For a number of reasons which I will not go into here, I’m not
interested in a comparative assessment. My position is simply
that it is time for a totally new direction. And obviously, I’m not
the only one, as I’m speaking, there is a coalition having its
meeting in Lagos from which they hope to produce a
consensus candidate.
“There is another group meeting in Abuja, also at the end
would send us their consensus candidate. Things have been
going on quietly in the background to try and change the
direction of this nation in a very positive way, and to make the
public understand that they do not have to be enslaved
permanently to the old discredited order. It is my sole
business in this election.
“I don’t believe in what is called negative vote which means,
for me, throwing your vote in a waste basket, I believe instead
in a creative vote, not a protest vote, not a negative vote but a
creative vote. And a creative vote means that the will to at
least sow a seed through your vote that will germinate
eventually. The pace of germination is beyond the control of
everyone, but it is never too early to make a beginning. It has
happened before in other societies. When a dark horse
emerges from nowhere and trumps all the political juggernauts
caterpillars and so on with their performers, worthless, their
capacity for violence and treachery.”
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not-be-voting-for-either-buhari-or-atiku/