Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka yesterday came down hard on Nigerians who questioned the sincerity of his claim that he had dumped his United States green card.Prof. Soyinka last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, announced that he had dumped his green card in fulfilment of his pledge to do so should Donald Trump win the U.S. presidential election.
But some Nigerians questioned the claim in various social media posts.
Angered by this, Soyinka, who said he got the green card during the days of struggle against military rule in this country, told reporters in Lagos: ”Our common sense is totally lost. I am embarrassed sometimes that I occupy the same nation space with some people.
