I Have 60 Reasons Not To Vote Jonathan - Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, declared today, February 5,
2015, that no one should vote for President Goodluck
Jonathan's and his administration in the February 14 general
election, saying that there has been a total failure under the
President's leadership.
Addressing students, Wole Soyinka said he has sixty reasons
not to vote for the Jonathan regime.
"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",
Soyinka told students at the 2015 edition of Vision of the Child
(VOTC), a yearly programme inaugurated in 2012.
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Laying emphasis on the missing Chibok Girls, Wole Soyinka
said, the schoolgirls kidnapped on 14 April last year were sent
on a mission to acquire an education, but ended up being
kidnapped.
"And the government of this nation failed to show leadership.
So anyone who says after that event that I will vote or cast my
vote or encourage anyone to vote for this regime must be living
in Sambisa forest," Soyinka said, referring to a forest in Borno
State where the Chibok girls are believed to be held by Boko
Haram.
"There has been a failure of leadership. Our children whom you
represent today have been betrayed ," Soyinka said, adding that
no appropriate action was taken to rescue them.
Soyinka said it took the Jonathan government ten days to even
accept that the Chibok girls were missing.
"After that dereliction of duty, after that failure of leadership,
after that betrayal for 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,"
Soyinka said.
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On a more relaxed note, Soyinka laughed off those who had
claimed on the social media that he was dead, telling journalists
at the event that they should not misquote him. If they do, he
added, he will rise from the dead to correct them.
Prof. Wole Soyinka, who earlier last month, dismissed claims
that he had endorsed some politicians as his presidential and
governorship candidates ahead of the February elections. But
with his lambast at the administration of President Goodluck
Jonathan, no one seems to know where he stands now.