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I never told Nigerians to vote for Buhari – Wole Soyinka



Professor Wole Soyinka has said he never told Nigerians to vote for Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. 


NAIJA NEWS NG reports that Soyinka said he only asked Nigerians not to vote for Goodluck Jonathan. The Nobel laureate made this clarification on Thursday in Lagos while speaking to Journalists.

He said:

“Jonathan had a chance to win that election and I told him this. He blew it. He blew it on many levels.

“Before the election, I told him frankly. I told him why I was not going to vote for him or support him because he lost the confidence and trust of the people — a couple of actions and inactions, including his failure to tackle corruption. Despite that, it is false to say that I supported the election of Buhari.

“If I believed that is what I should do, I would not hesitate one moment to come out and say this is the candidate. I challenge anyone to say where did I say vote for Buhari — when what occasion, and in what language?

“What I said very distinctly is ‘do not vote for Jonathan’. I don’t regret that because the level of corruption at that stage was such at number one.

“It is a shame that one has to recall negativities. At no time did I ever say ‘vote for Buhari’. You can’t find it anywhere. I did not vote for Buhari. If you do not believe me, go and ask the security man in Abeokuta who used to accompany me if I left my house that day.”

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