Wole Soyinka, foremost playwright, says he will not support presidential candidates of either of the two major parties.
He said this at an ongoing interactive session tagged citizen forum 2019.
“It is time for a totally new direction, and when an alternative emerges, we will give the candidate our backing,” he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are the two leading candidates.