Nobel Laureate denies making anti-Igbo comments

monjola sotubo

May 6, 2015 10:47 AM

Wole Soyinka also said that anyone who believes that he made the anti-Igbo statements is a moron.

Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has denied making anti-Igbo comments recently attributed to him.

Soyinka also said that anyone who believes that he made the statements is a moron.

The eminent playwright made the clarification via a statement released on Wednesday, May 6, 2015.

The statement reads:

"I have just read a statement attributed to me on something called The Cable, a news outlet, evidently one of the Internet infestations.”

“My lecture at the Hutchins Centre, Harvard University, was video recorded. Anyone who believes what I am alleged to have said must be a moron – repeat, a moron.”

“It is demeaning, sickening and boring to have to deal with these cowards who cannot fight their own battles but must fasten their imbecilic pronouncements on others.”

“Only the mentally retarded will credit this comment attributed to me regarding the Ndigbo voting pattern in the last elections. I strongly suspect the author of this despicable concoction, and may make a further statement, once the source is verified.”

Online news platform, The Cable quoted Soyinka as saying that ‘Igbos vote with their stomachs,’ and also “suffer from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain” while delivering a lecture at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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