Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka prior to the just concluded American presidential election had made the news when he vowed to tear up his Green Card if the Republican candidate, Donald Trump wins the presidential election and all eyes have been on him to make real his vow since Trump has come out victorious in the election.
While Soyinka’s yet to be fulfilled vow continued to generate talks, the former FRSC boss has dropped another controversial statement promising to fulfill his vow on January 20, 2017, the day Donald will be sworn in as the 45th American president.
Meanwhile, founder of Kayode Ajulo & CO. Castle of Law who doubles as the founder of Egalitarian Mission Africa, Dr. Kayode Ajulo has expressed his disappointment in the elder statesman over what he called unguarded statement from him as he also warned of jail term if Soyinka goes ahead to fulfill his vow of tearing up his Green Card. Ajulo said Soyinka would have committed an offense that is punishable under the law if he tears up the card.
On the hand, former national secretary of Labor party, Ajulo revealed he was disappointed and unfortunate a man of Soyinka’s stature and repute could be so carried away to make reckless statements that could take negative effect on many who are looking up to him as a role model.
‘I don’t know what prompted Professor Soyinka to he was going to tear his Green Card but in case he does not know the implication, I think we should let him know he will be liable to jail term if he does so because tearing the card will amount to felony’.
All he or any other person needs to do if he feels he does not need the card anymore for whatever reason is to go the consular office of the country and drop it’. continuing, ‘ it’s very unfortunate and condemnable that somebody of Professor Wole Soyinka’s personality will be careless in what he say to the public knowing fully well that he’s opinion leader and a role model in the society. If he says he was going to tear his Green Card because a person of not his choice wins an election, some people out there might feel the best thing to do when they have trouble in their marriage is to tear apart their marriage certificate. I think he should know the kind of things to say with the kind of personality he has.
It will be recall many had written off Donald Trump that there no way he was going to win the presidential election on the account of his ideology and his past actions which had formed a stumbling block in his way but it became so shocking when he defeated perceived choice of the people, Hillary Clinton at the polls. Following Trumps victory, protests have erupted in several major cities across the United States of America where protesters are denouncing the president elect as their president.
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