The presidential elections may have been over and a winner declared by INEC, but Nobel Laurette, Professor Wole Soyinka, still thinks there is a point to make on why the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, lost.

He told his audience at the Havard University Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, where he delivered a lecture on: “Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies” that General Muhammadu Buhari was a difficult option for him being a former military dictator than having his fellow lecturer, Goodluck Jonathan continue as President.

Defending his support for the former military dictator, the foremost dramatist said that at a personal level, 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,” he told the audience in the United States.

According to him, “In a country where one of the six zones that make up the federation was on the verge of excision, with millions of beleaguered citizens marooned in the north east of the country; and thousands more cruelly murdered by insurgents, all Jonathan could offer was mollifying rhetoric and empty promises.”

Professor Soyinka also took a swipe at the government for supporting a faction of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum by recognising the minority after a straightforward election against the majority.