Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has admonished Nigerian Youths to stand up to the challenge of leadership instead of waiting on People who have contributed their quota to governance. He said this during the 21 years remembrance of Late M.K.O Abiola.
“Sometimes I refer to this generation of youths in which one places so much hope, as a ‘Gaseous’ generation because they are so full of gas.” he stated.
“But when it comes to action, you are astonished because they keep calling out names like where is Wole Soyinka? Where is Joe Okei-Odumakin? Where is Femi Falana?”
“They keep churning out the same names, same expectations, they do not organise themselves for action.
“This is what we had hoped to happen in the last elections when we called the public to jettison the two major political parties and for the youths to recognise that they actually have a powerful bloc vote and they should exercise it in a progressive way.
“Well, it didn’t work the first time, it’s a new concept to them, so, nobody should place so much expectations.
While calling on the young minds to be responsible, he also stated that the preparation for 2023 must start now.
“But one hopes that in advance, 2023, the youths should begin to organise themselves, they must not wait till the last minute.
“They should begin right now in manifesting their expectations and the possibility of the realisation of their expectations of taking up leadership positions.”
He said this in Ikeja.
