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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on has said that he would not vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the February elections because of the total failure of his leadership.
Speaking to students at the 2015 edition of Vision of the Child (VOTC) on Thursday, Soyinka 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”.
He lamented that the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in April 14 last year were yet to be rescued, adding: “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.
“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”
“There has been a failure of leadership. Our children whom you represent today have been betrayed.
“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”