Wole Soyinka responds to plane seat brouhaha through Mo Abudu
- Following the brouhaha surrounding the plane seat incidence between Nigerian scholar Wole Soyinka and a young man, the professor has spoken out
- In an email sent to media mogul, Mo Abudu, he revealed that he never exchanged a word with the young man other than when he asked him to take his seat
- The email came after a man claimed to be passenger who took his seat and and said he went on to have a chat with Soyinka
It has been a couple of hours and social media is still buzzing with mixed reactions over the plane seat incidence between a young man and Wole Soyinka. Following this and reports of a man claiming to be the passenger in question who took back his seat and went on to have a chat with the professor, Soyinka has responded.
In a brief email which he sent to media mogul, Mo Abudu, the professor stated that although he considered it a minor incident and had forgotten about it, the fact that the man claiming to be the passenger said he had a chat with him got him curious as nothing of that sort happened.
The post reads: "Someone sent me Patrick Tonye's comment on the plane incident, and I saw your brief comment. It was a very minor thing and I'd forgotten all about it. However, after reading the boy's response, I became curious. First, I never exchanged a word with him throughout beyond inviting him to take his allotted seat. Never spoke a word to him after that. Certainly never exchanged contact."
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"So of course, I wonder if it's the very individual who's posted this or a total fake. The phenomenon of stolen identities takes very strange dimensions and has become a source of worry. I wonder if this is one such. Any way of your finding out. I don't operate in the social media as you probably recall. WS"
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Among those that have now given a cent to the trending topic is controversial media personality, Daddy Freeze.
In a lengthy post shared on Instagram, the OAP expressed that there is a high probability that he would have also politely requested Soyinka to vacate a seat personally assigned to him.
He submitted that all the importance attached to being respectful has not stopped the nation from becoming the poverty capital of the world, adding that the situation became obtainable following the consequences of the actions of older generations.
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