2019: It’s Sickening to Campaign For Buhari's Second Term, Says Soyinka

..The president should rest

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Monday suggested that it is sickening for anybody to  canvass a second term for President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Professor of Literature who stated that he would shred his United States passport if President Trump won the US presidential election, simply advised Buhari not contest the 2019 presidential election.

Aside being reported on Monday as saying that it was sickening for some people to be canvassing second term in office for Buhari midway into his first tenure, a video trending online had quoted Soyinka as saying: “My view right now is that Buhari needs to take a rest. I hope he doesn’t put himself up for Presidency in 2019.

“But that doesn’t mean that his programs and projects should take a rest.

“People can be very scornful by saying is it anti-corruption we are going to eat but it is up to us to see that programmes like the anti-corruption fight is empowered especially at a time when people are launching books.”

The dramatist who frowned at the agitation for restructuring, further stated the advocates for Nigeria to be restructured were not saying the obvious.

Soyinka argued that rather that restructuring, Nigerians need restructuring of the mind on daily basis, as well as what he called “re-configuring”.