Nigerian playwright and poet, Professor Wole Soyinka has stated he would stop visiting the United States if Republican Party Presidential Candidate Donald Trump wins the upcoming US presidential elections.
Trump, a business mogul and reality TV star won the Republican nomination on a message which largely hinged on taking America back for Americans by restricting immigrants who compete with the citizens for jobs from entering and banning Muslims from entering to ensure the safety of Americans.
Though his position was largely seen as unconventional and divisive, they were populist and resonated with most members of his party leading him to win 13.4 million votes in the primaries which is the most votes won by any Republican nominee ever.
However, Prof Soyinka, who in 1986 became the first African to win Nobel Prize in Literature, thinks that Mr Trump's solutions to America's problems are too simplistic and unrealistic.
"He has a simplistic view of what America should be which is worrying and I shudder to think of him becoming President of America", he said.
According to him, America has so much power in the world that people with views such as those Trump cannot be made to wield.
Speaking on Metro TV's Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, he disclosed that he would call a press conference and cut his US Green Card into pieces should Trump win.
"Luckily, I'm not an American citizen but just a permanent resident and my bags are always passed. If he wins, I would just carry luggage and I would be one of the first persons to board a flight out of the country and never return", he told host Paul Adom Otchere.
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