By Agboola Bayo Ibadan
On Air Personality, Toke Makinwa, has revealed that she was once advised to withdraw from school as an undergraduate of the University of Lagos over bad grades. Toke made the disclosure against the backdrop of the fact that she intends to embark on a tour of her controversial tell-all memoir, On Becoming, at her former university in a few days. She said she decided to wrap up the book promotion at the university to inspire people who may be going through the same situation she went through years ago.
Toke wrote: “I haven’t always made the right choices but I am thankful for grace. I’m nowhere near perfect, I struggle sometimes but I’m learning to lean on the grace of God to catch me when I fall. “It’s quite emotional for me to end my book tour at the University of Lagos because I remember my time there, I wasn’t the brightest ‘How I was told to withdraw from UNILAG’ student, I had potential but I was a troubled young girl, I didn’t care much for my books until one day I was advised to withdraw, and I hit rock bottom.
” Continuing, Toke added: “I had nowhere else to go; my grades were bad, so bad the school asked me to leave. Something happened (grace), there was a meeting with all department heads I was granted mercy on humanitarian grounds. My lecturers knew I had it in me, but I couldn’t see what they saw; they decided to give me an extra year to turn it around.” “It was humiliating, I started not quite at the bottom, but it was a struggle. My mates had graduated and I was in a new class and it was hard, but I did it. I don’t know how but I made a 2:2. Instead of 4 years, I spent 5/6 but I made it out.
