Tuesday 17 February 2015

Jonathan and Buhari are both problematic candidates – Wole Soyinka


Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has taken a swipe on the two frontline candidates in the March 28 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan of PDP and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of APC, describing them as ‘problematic flagbearers.’
He said this in an interview with BBC on Monday, and that the political parties should have come up with far better options than the two leading candidates.
“There is a huge albatross hanging (around) the necks of the two main candidates. I can understand the dilemma which many voters have. One contender is troubled by the present, the other by the past.”
Soyinka also decried the lack of fair play in the election, saying the spirit of “let’s have a fair war” was not yet deep enough.
He faulted Jonathan for the failure to rescue the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in April 2014.
“What happened was a clear failure of leadership – a slow reaction, an inadequate reaction and response,” Soyinka told the BBC.
 “Buhari and his partner, the late Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, after (former military head of state) Sani Abacha, I think they represented the most brutal face of military dictatorship. There is no question about that,” Soyinka said.
“But the environment changes, circumstances change and… I look at the possibility of a genuine internal transformation in some individuals. I’ve been disappointed before and we must always be ready to be disappointed again,” he added.

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