The first child of Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Olaokun has written an open letter to Tonye Cole after the now viral plane incident with his father.


The medical doctor and former Ogun State Commissioner for health has written a letter to the business mogul, Tonye Cole, who first reported the matter on social media.

The letter read in part; “The young man whose seat it was may have had a specific reason to insist on having his seat. He was within his rights, and WS (Wole Soyinka) would be last person to make an issue of it. My irritation, however, is reserved for the social media warriors.”

Talking about how Wole Soyinka himself would have reacted when he was younger, Olaokun said, his father was an activist in his youthful days but was also a gentleman, he wrote; “Some vehemently defended the right of the young man to claim his seat. They hailed him for bravely standing up to oppression and divined how a young WS himself might have reacted in a similar situation. (He is an activist but a gentleman, so it is most likely he would have graciously given way to an elder who mistakenly sat in his seat).”

Read full letter here;

https://www.delaniblog.com.ng/2019/06/26/wole-soyinkas-son-olaokun-writes-open-letter-after-plane-incident-see-full-letter/