I’ll destroy my green card if Trump wins, says Wole Soyinka
Wole
Soyinka has expressed that he doesn’t believe Donald Trump will win the
United States elections but will tear up his green card if he does.
Nigeria’s Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka has
said that he would cut up his green card if United States presidential
hopeful Donald Trump wins the US presidency, BBC reports.
Soyinka is currently a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.
Speaking at the Oxford University in London, Soyinka said it was highly “unlikely that Trump would win the upcoming elections”.
He,
however, cautioned that if he did, the “first thing he’ll do is to say
[that] all green card holders must reapply to come into the US.
“Well,
I am not waiting for that. The moment they announce his victory, I will
cut my green card myself and start packing up,” Soyinka was quoted as
saying.
The Republican leader is expected to take on the Democrats candidate Hillary Clinton on November 8.
Recent
polling forecasts suggest the 70-year-old property mogul faces a battle
to win enough states to secure an Electoral College victory over his
Democratic rival.
But he received a boost on Tuesday when an ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll showed him leading Clinton by 46 to 45%.
— News 24
