“I am not an
entertainer. Why should I entertain you on that? I am a dramatist. When I say I
have done something, Ogun (the god of iron) is my guiding spirit on it. Maybe I
should be exiting Nigeria and not the U.S. People that one dedicated one’s life
of struggle to can be so slavish in mentality to query the right of their
champions to freedom of expression.”
If I decide to
leave the U.S., it is my personal decision and not that of the millipedes of
the Internet. Why do Nigerians weep more than the bereaved? Trump is not really
my business. He has been elected. He should do his work. There are born-again
humans in all areas, why not in politics? Even the stock exchange reacted to
Trump’s election. I also reacted in my own way. There is freedom of expression.
We have far too many illiterates in this country.’’
Soyinka plans to hold a private funeral on January 20, the
day Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president, “to mourn the death of
common sense in Nigeria and not to bewail the citizens of the U.S. over their
choice of president”.
He cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against sending
congratulatory messages like he did to ex-President of The Gambia, Alhaji Yahya
Jammeh, for conceding defeat to Mr. Adama Barrow.
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