Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has made known his stand ahead of the United States Presidential election scheduled to hold on November 8.
The Nobel Laureate, while reacting to the possibility of one of the candidates, Donald J. Trump to win the election said that he will destroy his green card.
Soyinka, while speaking on Wednesday at the Oxford University, England said: “If in the unlikely event he [Donald Trump] does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say [that] all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that.”
The UK Guardian quoted Soyinka to have added: “The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up.”
Further speaking on the recent move by Britain to exit the European Union, Wole Soyinka described the move as a “ridiculous decision”.
He said: “What is happening in Europe shouldn’t surprise any of us … It has happened before. We were here when Enoch Powell was leading his thugs out to drive blacks from here.
“It’s a constant fight to try to get a nation to recognise its own noble persuasions, its own persuasions of the loftiness of human possibility. It’s for young people like you to say no to them whenever that happens.”