The Presidential, N’Assembly,the most manipulated and rigged elections ever witnessed in Nigeria~wole soyinka

Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the presidential and National
Assembly elections as the most vicious, unprincipled, vulgar and
violent he had ever witnessed.
Nobel Laureate, in an interview with TheGuardianUK on Sunday, was
quoted as saying, "We're talking about a very positive response by the
public in terms of determination to register and vote but, you know,
this has been one of the most vicious, unprincipled, vulgar and
violent exercises I have ever witnessed.
Soyinka who added,I just hope we won't go down as being the
incorrigible giant of Africa."
According to Soyinka, the stakes appear to be so high that all
scruples have been set aside and it's very distressing to compare this
election with that of 1993, which was one of the most orderly,
civilised and resolute elections the country ever had.
Soyinka said, "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.
It was learnt that 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."
Wole soyinka, who told a source how he was recently invited by
President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss various issues, said, "We even
discussed life after power, whenever that takes place.
"It was so difficult for me to decide from his side how readily he
might accept defeat. He completely 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.
Nigerians have had a very rough time over the last few years with
Boko Haram and all kinds of insecurity, failure of governance and so
on. I think we deserve to have this period as a period of comparative
tranquillity and peace of mind to reconstruct and address some really
fundamental issues of society. So I really hope the result, however
gracelessly or grudgingly, will be accepted by the loser."
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