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. Click continue below for more details
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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