Soyinka warns Nigerian youths not to follow ‘those who failed you before’.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has warned the youths against following the prescriptions of  those who have failed them before.

Soyinka was speaking at the 2nd Convocation lecture of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State where he urged the youths to have representatives in power during the next elections.

While making reference to the resolve of one of the captured Dapchi girls, Leah who “like Nelson and Winnie Mandela, who chose to remain in prison despite the offer by the government of South Africa, ” he urged the youths to be firm in their convictions in the 2019 elections.

He said, “All I can just tell you is this; don’t make the mistake of following those who failed you before; those who are pretending that they have nothing to do with the disaster that has overtaken Nigeria.

“They are very quick to smell failure, they are very quick to shout it; but then, they exculpate themselves, whereas they are the founding malfeasance of the Nigerian condition: that is what I am warning youths against.

“Mobilize, get your representatives and stop bothering geriatrics like myself. “