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Nigerians Made a Most Important Decision By Removing Jonathan and His Men - Wole Soyinka
Posted by Thandiubani on Wed 09th Dec, 2015 - tori.ngAcclaimed playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka has expressed great pleasure after recent events justified that Nigerians made a great decision by voting out former president Goodluck Jonathan and all of his men.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has thrown his support for President Muhammadu Buhari as he insisted that Nigerians made the all important choice to boot out Jonathan and his looting partners who would have destroyed the country if they lasted another term. Soyinka revealed this while featuring in a TV programme titled: 'Channels Book Club' which aired on Channels Television on Tuesday.
He said the amount stolen by Jonathan and hid cohorts which is being revealed by the Buhari-led government has justified the decision of Nigerians to kick out the Peoples Democratic Party and its crop of insincere thieves. He said the monumental fraud recorded by the past administration is a shame as he tasked the Buhari-led administration to bring all the thieves to book.
The playwright also talked about his change of choice and why he had to support Buhari after believing that nothing good could come out of him. He said, “We were left with two credible contestants in terms of catchment area for the nation. We had reached, in my view, the bottom. I became convinced that if this country underwent four more years under President Jonathan, the country would run aground completely. I looked at the record and said this cannot go on, this has to stop.
“Then I looked at this man who had contested elections three times before and said he would not contest anymore and then decided to throw his hat in the ring. I talked to people and I said do you know what you’re doing?
“And after weighing all the options, I said let’s try a new one. And since in electoral terms, he was the one, I guardedly, with reservations, announced that no, not a continuation under Jonathan.
“And so very reluctantly, I want this on record, because I made it quite clear, I weighed the two of them and I said this nation stands a better chance under Buhari. And what has been coming out now? Look at all that has been coming out? Look at the figures (loot) which virtually hammer one into the ground just the sheer enormity of the robbery of this nation that is getting exposed progressively. It shows that we did not make a bad choice.”
Although he expressed dissatisfaction with the ongoing pace at which the government is performing, he insisted that "Buhari has proven that there is such a thing as a born again democrat.”
He called on him to show his worth as a true democrat especially in the way he tackles the pro-Biafra agitation. He urged the government to address the issues why the protesters are agitating to understand the real problem. Soyinka asked the government to convene a fresh National Conference to address the issues raised by the pro-Biafran groups.
Soyinka said, “So, let us sit down, let us talk once again about restructuring the nation in a way that no one will want to leave. The agitations, for me, are not surprising. It was expected that it would happen sooner or later.
“So, I am referring to a genuine and authentic National Conference. Not like the one that former President Olusegun Obasanjo called which was meant to try to perpetuate himself in office.
“The one under Jonathan was extensive; it covered lots and lots of ground. It proposed some far-reaching changes, not far-reaching for me, but far-reaching. It is about time we went back to efforts like that; genuine ones like that.”
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