Playwright and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, says the
President Goodluck Jonathan administration does not
deserve a second term.
Soyinka, while speaking at the 2015 edition of a youth
programme titled ‘Vision of the Child’ in Lagos on Thursday,
said he had 60 reasons why Jonathan should not be re-
elected.
He said Jonathan had failed to rescue the over 200 Chibok
girls, who were kidnapped almost 300 days ago.
While addressing students at the event, he said, “I will not
vote and I will not encourage anyone to vote for the
continuation of this government, simply because your
colleagues numbering over two hundred were kidnapped.”
The playwright, who last December described the Jonathan
administration as being worse than Babylonian king,
Nebuchadnezzar, stated the President’s inability to locate
and free the abducted girls represented leadership failure.
He noted that shortly after the girls were kidnapped,
Jonathan failed to address the situation and went about as
if nothing had happened.
Soyinka said it was, therefore, outrageous for anyone to
say he was supporting the re-election of Jonathan.
He added,“It took the Jonathan government 10 days to
even accept that the Chibok girls were missing. After that
dereliction of duty; after that failure of leadership, after that
betrayal of our future, for anyone to think or to put words in
my mouth suggesting that I will vote or encourage anyone
to vote for this regime is a travesty of intelligence.”
Speaking on the theme, “The Road to Sambisa”, the literary
icon stressed Jonathan had not only betrayed children, he
had failed as a leader.
“There has been a failure of leadership. Our children whom
you represent today have been betrayed,” he said.
Soyinka warned members of the public not to believe every
story written about him on the social media on his
purported death.
Soyinka had also in September last year accused Jonathan
of shielding sponsors of terrorism.
He urged the President not to take likely, allegations by
Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davis, that there
was a group within the Central Bank of Nigeria sponsoring
Boko Haram.
The Nobel laureate noted that he personally knew Davis
because they both worked together during the Niger Delta
militancy crisis.
Soyinka also alleged that information about a suspected
financier of the terror group within the CBN was passed to
Jonathan but he allegedly sat on it.
Also at the event , the Secretary and Programme Manager
for the Vision of the Child programme, Ms. Foluke George,
said about 250 students from 60 primary and secondary
schools in Lagos would participate in a competition aimed
at promoting creative skills.
According to her, the competition will focus on reading,
writing, and painting for student aged between eight and 12
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