Prof Wole Soyinka Preaches New Order As He Rejects Support For APC and PDP

Prof Wole Soyinka has vowed not to support either the ruling APC or the opposition party, PDP in the coming 2019 general elections saying they do not deserve a comeback.

Soyinka urged Nigerians never to lose hope in charting a new direction that will deliver the nation from the looming anarchy, adding that it is not too early to make a new beginning.

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Speaking at Citizen Forum 2019 interactive session tagged: “Civic choice in a time of judicial ‘penkelemes” in Lagos yesterday, cautioned Nigerians to be wary of past political leaders who are out to deceive the electorate.

He said:

“I, Wole Soyinka, will not support either of the two contesting parties and I vote them for absolute rejection. It is time for a totally new direction.

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“But, things are going on in the background quietly to change the situation. I don’t believe in negative vote but in creative vote, which is a seed that will germinate. The pace of germination is beyond everyone.

“You must never be intimidated by crowd or rally. If you don’t begin you will not arrive. We must plant a seed, send a notice and you never know the pace it will germinate. Don’t let those past leaders mislead you all over again. Examine their motives. You must listen to the message and you must always interrogate the messenger.”

Soyinka said the forum was not in response to any claim that Nigeria is undergoing another late General Sani Abacha’s period; instead, the forum is for public enlightenment.

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He stressed that Nigerians must be prepared to defend their rights, adding that successive governments adopt various ways to muscle the civil society and the judiciary.

Soyinka said:

“Anarchy develops when you brush the constitution aside, when you trivialize and you degrade the laws…My respect for the law and the bench is ingrain in me.

“But, when I see a minister of Justice being killed like a chicken and nothing comes out of it in a democracy, I  see the entire system upside down until the perpetrators are found and one regime comes in, announce it as one of the unsolved political murders.

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“And this is not political murder but corruption murder. And up till now, regime comes after regime and nothing comes out of it. I, therefore, say what is there left for me to respect?”

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