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Soyinka Disclose Who He Will Vote, Urges Nigerians To Reject Both Buhari And Atiku

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: January 31, 2019
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Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerians to reject the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Wale Soyinka made this call during the Citizen Forum, an interactive session that was held at the Freedom Park, Lagos, on Thursday, January 31, 2019.

He stated that he was open to supporting an “alternative” candidate as both major parties are only worthy of “absolute rejection” as the country needs a new direction. 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.

“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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