Igbos and Stomach Infrastructure: Wole Soyinka Reacts

An online media had quoted Prof. Wole Soyinka as saying Igbos were politically naive while delivering a lecture titled, “‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies,” at Harvard in April, 2015.

He was quoted as saying “The Igbo are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain.”

But Soyinka has reacted to the report, saying it's only morons that would believe he said such...

He said the entire lecture was recorded on video and anyone interested could access it on the Internet.

Soyinka said, “I have just read a statement attributed to me on 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.”

Harvard has also stated that it will post the video online so everyone can see Soyinka did not attack Igbos.