Another four years for Jonathan would have been disastrous – Soyinka

Nigerian Play Wright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka while delivering a lecture titled: Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies, at the Harvard University’s Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA praised the choice of General Muhammad Buhari over President Goodluck Jonathan by Nigeria in the just concluded general elections in the country.

According Soyinka: It was a painful decision to tell people to vote Buhari, but the country needed a new beginning. I was more against Jonathan, than I was pro-Buhari. Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade a system by which one attains fulfilment, and this is what the nation witnessed time and time again under Jonathan, who was increasingly becoming intolerant of opposition in an escalating streak of impunity and authoritarian madness, which was most blatant and unconscionable.