You want Wole Soyinka to cut off is green card?

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.
Speaking at the Oxford University in London, Soyinka said it was highly “unlikely that Trump would win the upcoming elections”.

According to him “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.
Soyinka is currently a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs. As at the time of filing the report the green card has not been seen cut.

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