Earlyface

Wole Soyinka
Published by Family Writers
Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denied reports
that made the rounds on major newspapers and other social media
in Nigeria that he will tear his United States of America Green Card
if the Republican candidate, Donald Trump is declared winner.
In a historic presidential election, Trump was declared winner and
US President-elect.
In a statement emailed to Daily Globe Watch in the French capital of
Paris, Prof. Soyinka emphatically denied the statement.
“My attention has been drawn to a wide and highly publicized and
reported matter that, I said, should Americans elect Donald Trump
as in the just concluded election, I will tear my America Green card.
This is to inform all that, I never said so or matter of such
resemblance.’
“‘In fact, it’s an imagination of men who sees my continuous
relevance as a threat to their ignoble and rebellious behavioral
ineptitude. It is a salvage custom, barbaric, outdated, rejected,
infamous and ignominious.
”Let me further note that the President-Elect was one of my
colleague at the University of Michigan and other organizations
where we both delivered papers. He is my friend and was very
instrumental in the granting of my residential permit during the
reign of General Sani Abacha, the greatest dictator of our time,” he
said.
Prior to the election, Soyinka had been quoted as saying that if
Trump is elected president of the United States, he will leave the
country.
“If in the unlikely event he 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,” said Soyinka, who is scholar-in-
residence at New York University’s Institute of African American
Affairs this autumn.
“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card
myself and start packing up.”
It remains unclear where the reported statement emanated from.