I would have politely asked Wole Soyinka to vacate my seat – Daddy Freeze

By
Wale Oloworekende
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Daddy Freeze

Controversial radio presenter, Daddy Freeze, has revealed that he would have politely requested Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, to vacate his seat on a plane.

This is coming in reaction to a young man requesting the literary giant to leave his seat as shared by oil mogul, Tonye Cole.

In an Instagram post on Monday, Daddy Freeze revealed that he would have done the same thing.

“Dear Tonye Cole, I probably would have politely done the same thing the young man did. Growing up, I was taught never to challenge my elders. In retrospect, I find it difficult to point to what this has earned us as a people? Are we more morally upright, less corrupt, safer, richer and better than nations where children are encouraged to stand up to elders? NO!” he wrote in parts.

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Dear Tonye Cole, I probably would have politely done the same thing the young man did. – Growing up, I was taught never to challenge my elders. In retrospect, I find it difficult to point to what this has earned us as a people? Are we more morally upright, less corrupt, safer, richer and better than nations where children are encouraged to stand up to elders? NO! – Nigeria, with all our respect, has become the poverty capital of the world boasting of more people in extreme poverty than China and India combined, YES, COMBINED! (According to worldpoverty.io) – Some of our elders have sold our birthright, lied to us about salvation and taken foolish decisions that have impoverished us. – What drew me to Prof. Soyinka in the first place was the fact that he never failed to challenge our leaders in power and religion, no matter their age. – The young man on the flight DEMANDED his right; if you can’t demand your right on a flight, how can you demand it from the government or church? – The government needs to provide amenities for the people, while the Church should be accountable to the last kobo, we MUST demand this! – Christ was less than 33 years old when he challenged the Pharisees, the authorities in religion of that time, who were in their 70s and 80s. ~FRZ —- “I met one of the greatest Nigerians walking the earth today and as with other times, he was genteel, witty, forthright and humble. My smile gives me away as he permitted the picture whereas he would have preferred to get back to his newspapers. Then we boarded the flight and after assisting him with his bags, he took the window seat and promptly started reading again. A few minutes later this young man, baseball cap, t-shirt to show his muscled chest and tattooed biceps boards the plane and tells Prof he is on his seat (which he was). Those of us including the cabin crew tried to reason with Bobo Fine to let the old man be but the chap refused. He insisted Prof should vacate his window seat, which the old man quietly did for his original aisle seat next to him. ~Tonye Cole

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The issue has garnered a lot of reactions on social media with some saying they would not have asked Soyinka to give up his seat while others said they would.

Twitter users have shown support for the unidentified man, saying that Prof. Soyinka would have done same in his youth.

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