[Full Speech] Wole Soyinka Calls For Decentralisation Of Government To Maximise Development

In a public lecture in celebration of the 50th anniversary of PUNCH Nigeria Limited, Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka spoke about previous national conferences in Nigeria, and the need for decentralisation. He also shared his thoughts on coups and political developments in parts of Africa.
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[@kingsleyogbuka9963]

Steal it,grab it,run with it, with no plan for Nigeria, but its one of our own let's support him even if he stole the mandate..Good morning proff. BIAFRA NOW NOW

[@timitorlowei104]

Bla bla bla only talk when convenient, use to have a lot of respect for this man, election process brings out people character

[@abdulmateen1618]

He doesn't need your respect

[@Goonermenu]

because he didnt support your fraudulent candidate.

[@lucyeze8905]

You are correct

[@SanyaoluDavidSunday]

Leave our father alone, please

[@jimifash]

As far as I am concerned, you're the one who knows him. To him right now, you're just a number!

[@ChijinduCallistus]

So people are still listening to this man. He used to be a respected man before now. RIP to your respect.

[@sulaak]

Because he did support you PO

[@Vinus739]

​​@@sulaakYes because he supported Tiefnubu who is leading Nigeria to a disaster. Now he is basically talking the Aburi accord in another language. The problem with you Yorubas is that you are too tribalistic. You are better off managing your own Oduduwa country with no other ethnic group there for you to be tribalistic against...

[@Vinus739]

He is basically talking the Aburi accord of 1967 in another language....waohhh

[@Goonermenu]

I'm in support of this. Power needs to be decentralized so that each region and by extension state government can have more control over her resources and who has access to them. The indigenes of these states will also be forced to hold their Governors,Senators,HoR,LG Chairmen accountable instead of migrating to states that are better governed, indirectly giving free passes to repeated failed state governments. The devolution of power to subnationals also ensures conservationism.

[@charlesiwuagwu1517]

Speeches in inuendos at this critical period in Nigeria is treacherous and cowardly.its unacceptable too.the man dies in the person who treacherouly keeps silent in the face of oppression and suppression😢

[@ukwuorji6333]

Our message is clear, Biafra kawaii!

[@jimifash]

Please make it happen. Some of us would be so glad and grateful; and would find inspiration in your pacesetting.

[@SamuelIkpakalu]

​@@jimifashYou're the one to tell your tribe's drug baron to make dit happen very fast

[@colokoye5243]

All this grammar is unnecessary. Go straight to the point. People are hungry and jobless. People are afraid to travel and to go to their farms. Talk from your heart and not your head, sir. Tell Tinubu to reduce the suffering of the people.

[@austineigwe9754]

What's he saying, SHAME ON u for supporting Evil

[@judahwilliams9848]

This should have been done long ago

[@monimag249]

Modern youths needs Modern language and modern Nigeria 🇳🇬 not all this indictionary language

[@KpeliEddy-xm3wc]

Sure

[@parentsandkidstv]

The worst mistake a human being will make is trusting wole Soyinka. He is a chameleon.

[@jimifash]

Because your clueless presidential candidate didn't win an election? Nigerians!

[@judekurt5970]

Just because he didn’t go to the direction that favors you, right? Find your way to the level of the recognition he has first, then see how much trust you can earn from people.

[@NamelessOne-pi9sj]

​@@judekurt5970😂😂😂 stories for gods.

[@judekurt5970]

@@NamelessOne-pi9sj that’s because gods are wiser than you. Mind your spelling if you want to insult ppl. Ewu.

[@NamelessOne-pi9sj]

Stories for people like you.. without conscience that stand for nothing

[@highbury10]

Please take what Wole Soyinka is saying and place it in the trash can where it rightly belongs. Nothing he has ever said that inspired the youth. Maybe he could inspire to right a book . He is simply an educated tribalist with no inspirational content.

[@jimifash]

Who are the youth you're referring to? Where are they? And what in life is your basic achievement to ask your kind to trash-can what he said?

[@abimbolaidowu1877]

He was in jail for supporting Biafra. he is a man of realist. Ekection is over. And fact remain that, your Obi never won the election. And I swear with my life for that claim. You people should stol your Igbo centrist, and stop anti other ethnic affection,that always create hatred for your igbo ethnic.

[@mohamedhalicelamina2215]

Maybe what chinua Achebe had said about biafra struggle is more than trash

[@NamelessOne-pi9sj]

​@@mohamedhalicelamina2215 See quota system talking. Go and learn common sense.

[@RadioTV595]

@@abimbolaidowu1877 Bollocks!

[@itsasmallworld2012]

I listened to him for the first 15mins and can confidently say he failed as a revered literary giant and communicator. He could have saved us all that cerebral torture. That mental chase around a protracted verbal exercise in academic elitism was not necessary.

[@jimifash]

You're as guilty as you claim he was in his speech making. Read everything you wrote again. By the way, I'm not impressed by you.

[@thegreatben27]

Please can you explain your write up in simple English?

[@judekurt5970]

@@jimifash😂😂😂

[@nathanmacalfred3659]

He is a Tinubu spokesman 'by half', caveat emptor.

[@mohamedhalicelamina2215]

Oh yes fanatic that you are you cannot separate politics from intellectualism

[@hassanlawal5579]

I understand, comprehend, speak, and write the English language......parharps even more than an average Englishman does. But, I'd appreciate it if someone out there can translate, or interpret what Soyinka was saying here. I have absolutely no clue what all of his "mumbo jumbo" was all about. Soyinka should've realized that the ordinary hungry Nigerian on the street wouldn't understand/ relate to all dis oyinbo wey him dey blow. Yeah, I'm not saying that he doesn't mean well. I'm simply saying..... Nigerians no understand all dis grammar. Soyinka should've made this address in broken English.

[@RadioTV595]

The irony is that the English native speakers themselves do not speak or listen to long grammer aka ogonogo oyibo which they derisively call "gobbledegook". Even the highly educated ones are campaigning for plain English whereas in Nigeria,'s alternate universe, the opposite is the case: the more you obfuscate, the cleverer you are assumed to be.

[@RadioTV595]

Ironically, the English native speakers themselves do not speak or listen to long grammar (aka ogonogo oyibo) which they derisively call "gobbledegook". The highly educated amongst them are right now campaigning for plain, simple English. But in Nigeria's alternate universe, the opposite is the case: the more you obfuscate, the cleverer you are assumed to be, like this bloke.

[@darrenjones7230]

MOST ELEQUENTLY PUT. A TRUE ITEMIZATION OF THE PERENNIAL BRUHAHA PLAGUING OUR SOCIETY!! 😂😂😂

[@jimifash]

Please give us examples of where the highly educated amongst them advocated for such as you pointed out. The last time I checked, Wole Soyinka and very many other Nobel Laureates yet teach and communicate to students and more adult audiences this way at Harvard College, Yale University, Cornell University, Oxford University and Princeton University.

[@kene6753]

I wish I could upvote your comment 1000 times. This man thinks that people are in awe of his use of haughty English language. Nonsense!

[@maristosmedia5195]

Look like he is on stage for an academic script competition presentation. More like a new poem presented before poets. It must be a great punishment sitting among these audience listening to a disconnect speech from what is most needed currently in Nigeria.

[@donaldchidiebere3863]

😅😅😅😅😅😅 I go laugh o..😅😅

[@echetabuemeka4087]

Is he going to use foul language on kids today?

[@felixotuoke5419]

Beyond rhetorics is the moral consistency of dealing with corruption in Nigeria. We all remember during president Jonathan’s administration all manner of people had the audacity to say whatever they liked but now, most of those people have now lost their tongues to speak truth to power. This is part of the irony of life in Nigeria. In all of these, time remains the faithful arbiter of truth when we fail to judge the facts correctly. The circle of evil and injustice simply repeats rhythmically in a culture where truth remains elusive.

[@steveazoribe5854]

Insecurity, nigeria should regulate or restrict the proliferation of arms to security agencies its fueling Insecurity bc most of those arms end up in wrong hands one way or the other . 50% of high level crimes and criminality have security agencies involved .

[@EAOkoli]

Professor Gbajue

[@mohamedhalicelamina2215]

He is Worldwide recognize and did need yours

[@abimbolaidowu9532]

Always a rival to Yoruba people. Soyinka and Achebe. No more Gbajue. Who's Gbajue and desperate between us now.

[@omodokings3741]

We know where u r speaking from

[@adedayoapata1998]

We are in full support of an all-time father figure. Sir pls help us push on the case of state policing. Security is paramount also the issues of financial empowerment of the masses/grants etc to create businesses. Thank you

[@hillary3866]

Damage controlling recent past mistakes

[@omodokings3741]

He can't even control it

[@RadioTV595]

Same old , same old. What was the Aburi Accord about again? What was the cause of the Biafran war again?

[@jimifash]

Because 5 military officers of a certain tribe in Nigeria planned and executed a first military coup d'etat in Nigeria that obviously took more lives from other tribes than their own tribe, if any. They claimed it was to restore the kind of governing order they'd like to see after all the turmoil from the political class. It turned out another certain tribe in Nigeria lost more lives in the coup d'etat and decided to strike back 6 months later. The rest is now some of the history you and I and the rest of us watching Wole Soyinka speak are currently living.

[@SamuelIkpakalu]

​@@jimifashBro, you need to educate yourself again about those that took part in that coup,there were people from every part of the country.

[@jimifash]

@@SamuelIkpakalu No, I don't need it. I've read and watched enough resources on the subject matter to never need to. To make matters worse, I've dated Southeastern girls who confirmed what the books and documentaries I read and watched to be true through their parents.

[@SamuelIkpakalu]

Laughable😄,so you made your conclusion through what your former girl friends told you.

[@jimifash]

@@SamuelIkpakalu She was born by Igbos who lived and witnessed the entire 1960-1980 Nigerian politics. They told her to believe what I wrote here. She told me, so I believed her and wrote it here so that you and others like you would need to do better than those parents and all the documentaries I've watched here on KZbin to disprove it. Unless you're their age mates and can prove it, I'd go with their version of the story.

[@waleasylumoba6701]

🤝

[@michaeludeze8470]

Decentralization or State control, where each State develops their resources, and controls 100% of their resource revenue is the only way Nigerian economy will diversify, create economic opportunities, and rescue Nigeria from further descent into insecurity and chaos. That is the practice in advanced economies. Instead, Nigeria crippled itself with centralized economic system that makes every State equal, thereby killing progress, and nationalizing poverty.

[@kamajishiable]

Soyinka only impresses those who find unusual English words exciting. He strives to sound elevated... This communication style is obsolete my friend!

[@judeonwuatu7998]

I don't believe anything this guy saying He is a wasted generation Leave us alone liar!

[@judekurt5970]

You’re not wiser than those who invited him. They know his value and the power his voice carries. Before you can call someone of this caliber a wasted generation, pls make, at least, one-quarter of the impact he has made in the world. He could be wasted to you but to millions, more recognized than you, he is an achiever.

[@sonnycharles901]

Soyinka please all this grammar has expired we no gree tell your brother Tinubu we are hungry

[@successornwobodo6489]

BIAFRA to the IGBOS is all the Solution.....

[@mickyonwudiegwu9331]

Hahaha yeye man, very soon he will talk rubbish and run go hide.

[@joebosah2727]

Gobbledegook is it

[@bernardclement8016]

The story is changing from restructing to decentralization. This man is very unreliable, chameleon .

[@Goonermenu]

Do you even know what is meant by the term "decentralization" at all?

[@bernardclement8016]

@@Goonermenu I understand Bro, and I know what I commented. This party and soyinka have been championing restructing while bringing another name after 8 years plus. If they mean the same thing let them stay with the first and do it. He want to give this government another name to run with and excape restructuring.

[@judahwilliams9848]

It’s still the same thing

[@ukwuorji6333]

Whatever plan, hence one1 Nigeria, Biafra isn't interested

[@canwetalknow]

@@GoonermenuComprehension was his problem.

[@ayenia2736]

When he said 'let nations die and humanity live', their faces became suddenly red.

[@michaeludeze8470]

If the economies of the United States, Canada or Germany were structured like Nigeria's, they, too, would be failed States like Nigeria. We are doing it WRONG!!! Everything is upside-down, starting from our over-centralized economic structure. When I discuss this topic with Nigerians living in Nigeria, they would argue with me because they read books and obtained Masters Degree. The reality is not quite the same as text books. In fact, if you relocate to advanced countries, and want to understand the economic system, it will take you more than 10 years to grasp the nuances of Advanced economies.

[@kunlekuseju4090]

Vintage Professor Soyinka, Bàbá let's hope they'll make use of the good advice and free the people from the fraudulent logjam called Nigeria.

[@itsolawaleofficial]

This grand pa should go and sit down somewhere abeg. You are a part of the problems we have. Take pride in colonial language than yours, at least that’s what we know you for sir.

[@chelseablood9587]

Mad man

[@immadike-shittu6329]

Mad professor what is he up to today?.

[@mohamedhalicelamina2215]

You should differentiate between politics and intellectualism

[@kene6753]

It's more like a fake professor.

[@mohamedhalicelamina2215]

@@kene6753 None of your intellectual reach His toes

[@kamajishiable]

This senile 'professor' should stop embarrassing whatever he has left as his legacy... Soyinka is currently living a disgraceful life in his twilight... What a shame!!!

[@PhilipsEfem-co1mj]

I have lost respect for wole. He double speaks. So we should stop listening to him. He actually has nothing to offer this generation. A man living in his past glories.

[@streetsaints5161]

Nonsense talk...... You guys should bow your heads in shame. Just keep quiet and let us find our future.

[@samuelomere2784]

GBUJE decentralisation……Nigerians are not confused……

[@darrenjones7230]

GBADJUEEEE!!!😂😂😂 THEY ARE BANTUEYEURS!

[@wondersvideos2758]

Speaking big big English

[@benjaminalaeto8608]

Gbajue should go and sleep, the problem of Nigeria is bigger than what he thought.

[@D-LORD-P]

One of our mobile and breathing problems.

[@joshuaj.chinda9873]

Great to see Wole Soyinka embarrassing himself. He continues to prove that Chinua Achebe was a treasure.

[@uchepaul2747]

Sir,Wole Soyinka, since the cost of living in Nigeria are getting harder,no body have seen you coming out to speak. gbajue.

[@gwomdakwak4905]

Gbajue professor

[@mohamedhalicelamina2215]

A Nobel price is Worldwide recognize and did not need yours

[@ogbonnadenise3024]

Sir, You are more poet than government administration and policy advisor. Please stick to your playwriting.

[@AziengbemiJustice-tw2ch]

Heaping the blames on social media.

[@anisereabimbola3727]

One in a generation and an outstanding professor highly intellectual and amazing 👏 Those who have been brainwashed and with zero sense of values will never appreciate your invaluable contributions since the time many of the today indignity generation were not born

[@yetundekuti4530]

How many Nigerians understand the Wole Soyinka speech even when the Oyinbo man speaks he uses simple English language for every body to understand what he is saying

[@oluwatobigloriouscrownt6179]

Many of those seated there didn't understand what his saying oo, they'll sha clap when others claps

[@levisiyk2843]

This mam is just trying to blame the press and media for his unguided speeches anytime he is opportune to speak. Is it not a shame that he is here speaking eloquently when we are asking for solutions on how to move Nigeria out of the quagmire

[@HillcrestDiction]

What's he saying, please? 😂

[@boborock2012]

When it was Jonathan, he was on the streets, now that it's a fellow Yoruba, it's decentralisation of government. Educated tribalist! I can never be inspired by such an individual

[@Vinus739]

You said it all....

[@mikeharrisoraekee3446]

Watch it this statement is not going down well with the northerners look out for the next move as they burn down his grandmother's house in the village the prof only made his speech in proverbs only the wise will understand,in my opinion I think we all have heard enough from Nigeria, it's time to part and go.thank you

[@adefayommy1630]

NIGERIA HAS EXPIRED SINCE 2014. I 💙🤍💚 YORUBA NATION.

[@E_Moon-1]

But your tribesman is in power.

[@adefayommy1630]

@@E_Moon-1WHETHER MY TRIBE MAN IS IN POWER OR NOT, THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM. NIGERIA WAS DESIGNED BY THE BRITISH FOR THEIR OWN INTEREST, AND IT HAS EXPIRED SINCE 2014.

[@E_Moon-1]

@@adefayommy1630 You're not wrong. I still bet that you were rooting for Tinubu at the start of the election.

[@adefayommy1630]

@@E_Moon-1 I REPEAT, A YORUBA MAN PRESIDENCY IS NOT THE ISSUE. I PREFER AND I WANT A NATION WHERE MY MOTHER LANGUAGE IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE. JUST LIKE : ENGLAND = ENGLISH FRANCE = FRENCH SPAIN = SPANISH YORUBA = YORUBA LANGU. IGBO = IGBO LANGU. HAUSA = HAUSA LANGU. NIGERIA = ??????. DON'T TELL ME ENGLISH. A WORD IS A ENOUGH FOR A WISE MAN.

[@b.c.34]

Bababu professor. ...confused individual

[@user-lg2kr4xe9j]

😢Sir, tell it to the marine.

[@egwuatudamianobun1508]

Even many in the hall a just listening without understanding sir, that Nigeria for you sir I you ask 90% of them in the hall the topic they fail sir...

[@enyixkelechi691]

Wetin Baba Prof talk??

[@tracyjacopin4325]

CORN-FESSOR WITH HIS GBAJUE MINDSET

[@macabara8819]

We want to speak Igbo ,Yoruba and teach technology to our children in native language. English language does not make you intelligent by the way,the Chinese speak Chinese.

[@favouremmanuel979]

Look at speaking to people, bad leaders that killing Nigeria

[@samuelosaetin5186]

Triba biogot

[@josephezeafulukwe7478]

We dont need those long grammar. We need Biafra and for peace or in pieces.

[@geoffreyemeka7993]

Prof Gbajue, lacks the moral vivendi to make any serious national discuss, very sectional, parochial, small minded, weak & highly deceptive, a complete fake

[@aishahassan6327]

😂😂eeyah... sorry get well soon

[@J90719d]

See who's talking...jargons

[@user-di6dy1oz4s]

Love and respect to aone of the wisdom man.❤❤❤❤

[@darrenjones7230]

INTROSPECTION SHOULD NOT BE AN EXERCISE THAT LULLS YOU TO SLEEP. KINI KO KINI KO...YOU GO DEY EXPLAIN TIRE! 😂😂😂

[@oluwatobigloriouscrownt6179]

U are able to say all this because during the time u were schooling u don't think of anything else once u hv d education d future is secured unlike now that everyone goes to school just on hope

[@mcklasikayegba4595]

The only man I respect currently in the National space is Femi Falana. I use to have same respect for Wole Soyinka but his double standard behavior made me Change my mind

[@user-kf5ri2sf4r]

story teller you are oga

[@Josephswardrobe]

Speaking so much and making no sense .

[@yemigbade5745]

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE YORUBA IS NO LONGER PART OF NIGERIA. YORUBA EXIST NIGERIA NOV 20, 2022.

[@pdxmax01]

Why is Soyinka even talking? The man is old , he should let the young speak.

[@jimifash]

Who are the young?

[@judekurt5970]

He was invited by those who know his value. He didn’t just show up uninvited, so if you know any young person that has same recognition as him, pls introduce the person to the organizers. Some of you just hide behind your keyboard and be commentating rubbish.

[@ogumka1976]

This foolish professor

[@kaluakujuobiphilip9854]

Sir remember when you and ur group protested against Jonathan govt. Now how far now can't u and ur group protested about governance now. U see what ever a man sow is what u reap...

[@charitybazunu1277]

I agree with you for discebtralization.

[@HrJs-li4mf]

shame to you this man

[@mattador2003]

This man is irrelevant

[@user-hu2yo9gu5f]

Beautiful nonsense, his words is like a vapour😅

[@adekunleyussuf4259]

I thought Igbos want Biafra Republic isn't and Soyinka is championing their cause. Why are they all in pain? Or, they do not want to go their separate ways again? Nigeria can actually divide peaceful if that would resolved all our problems.

[@nkjoy1747]

So it's only Igbos that are on the comment section, u do have a big problem, so ur checking the comment section and counted the people that are Igbos 😂😂😂, so pathetic. Don't Yorubas want oduduwa/ Yoruba nation too? Kettle calling pot black.

[@okohlawrence2466]

Gbajue. Why don't you lead a protest over the hardship but because your tribesman is there, you will do no such thing

[@erasmusohuka1748]

Too English grammar is whole soyinka's problem l

[@bamideleabayomi4687]

This man shld retire from speaking in public

[@abiodunfakuade7296]

Go sleep

[@djbigwizzy]

Judas..!!!! Judas …. Jadas…!!!!

[@pisaitalia1348]

Shameless man the whole course rain on Tinubu will also follow you and your children

[@jimifash]

Peter Obi contested in the last presidential election and lost like Atiku Abubakar. The supporters of Peter Obi came to watch this video to attack Wole Soyinka because he said he didn't vote for any of the candidates because he was outside the country when the elections held. The question is: Even if he was in the country, must everyone support and vote for Peter Obi, especially if they don't like his message no matter how promising he sounded?

[@uchejohnson4170]

Senseless write up....

[@jimifash]

@@uchejohnson4170 I'm so sorry to disappoint you and not write what you want to read. I'm currently writing another comment in the same vein in another comments section.

[@SamuelIkpakalu]

​@@jimifashYour write up looks senseless mr man.

[@WSVIEWERSTV]

You already know it's hard for you to even admire the goat you kept in your compound. Go in shame bro and embrace the hardship with others off course you are not exempted

[@user-kf5ri2sf4r]

na only to speak English you Sabi stories teller

[@Vinus739]

Wole Soyinka is a chameleon......

[@michaelphillips2827]

Oyinbo rekpete! Go hide your face! We are all tribalist! That has fashioned and defined every occurrence in Nigeria. You kept mum on the recent elections and what transpired. Gbe enu re dake' jo!

[@judeskylabardooo8286]

Old tribalist

[@WSVIEWERSTV]

With pain in my heart i guess all this your grammar is causing me headaches. I don't even understand all this trash you called speech oga. Here is not class room

[@igbokwevictor7675]

Prof Soyinka is hanging on a very skinny integrity. Salt has lost it's taste!! Nigerians are now wiser and connot be fooled anymore by pretence and deceit or even big grammar. Thanks Bat for making know these men better.