I will go back to Otuoke if I lose – Pres. Jonathan tells Soyinka.

In an interview with TheGuardian UK on Sunday, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka says President GoodluckJonathan invited him recently to Aso villa where he informed him he will go back to his village if he loses the presidential election. He says;

“It was difficult for me to decide from his side how readily he might accept defeat. He absolutely swore that if he lost he was going back to Otuoke village. If I take him literally, I think he will accept the result, but I’ve learned never to trust any politician from here to there, even if they’re just coming out of communion. So I really don’t know.”

He also  the described the Presidential and National Assembly elections as the most vicious, unprincipled, vulgar and violent he had ever witnessed.

 “This one was like a no-holds-barred kind of election, especially, frankly, from the incumbency side. One shouldn’t be too surprised anyway given the kind of people who are manning the barricades for the incumbent candidate.

Most expensive, most prodigal, wasteful, senseless, I mean really insensitive in terms of what people live on in this country.

This was the real naira-dollar extravaganza, spent on just subverting, shall we say, the natural choices of people. Just money instead of argument, instead of position statements.

And of course the sponsoring of violence in various places, in addition to this festive atmosphere in which every corner, every pillar, every electric pole is adorned with one candidate or the other, many of them in poses which remind one of Nollywood.”