described the election of Muhammadu Buhari has a better
option among two evils, reports Thisday.
Delivering a lecture titled, “Predicting Nigeria, Electoral
Ironies”, at the Harvard University Hutchins Centre for
African & African American Research, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA, Soyinka said the outcome of the
March 28 presidential election was a stark choice between
a failed president and a former military dictator.
He noted that it was a painful decision to tell people to
vote Buhari, but the country needed a new beginning,
saying he was more against Jonathan, than he was pro-
Buhari.
He stated 2015 elections offered Nigerians an opportunity
to halt the nation’s descent into anarchy, adding that four
more years of Jonathan would have seen Nigeria plummet
further as the crawling giant of Africa.
