Igbo's Voted According to their Stomach - Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described the Igbos as people who can be predicted when it comes to voting.
According to him, the Igbos vote based on their stomach and have an incurable money mindedness. Prof. Soyinka said this while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at Harvard University Hutchins Centre for
African and African American
Research”, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,USA.
“Igbos remained unrepentant and
resolute towards their strategic objective of secession at worst; or a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at best,” he said at the lecture which held on April 29.
“The climax of MASSOB’s war against the Nigerian state was the call for sit-ins and civil disobedience that shut down markets and public services, as Igbos stayed at home in a symbolic gesture to assert Biafran independence. The call
was honoured by governors in the two principal Ibo states, though without fanfare. The Igbos are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote
for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest forvpersonal financial gain.
Muhammadu Buhari was the better of the two evils as the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan had been an unmitigated disaster and failure. It was a painful decision to tell people to vote Buhari, but the country needed a new beginning. I was more against Jonathan, than I was pro-Buhari."