DelilahMakinde:
Yes Dr Soyinka set the record straight.

It's your duty as a son.

Lucid1:



Dear Deliliah, I'm willing, Let me be your 'Samson'.

DelilahMakinde:


Hmmm...are you strong enough ?

The last guy is regretting it now..

SarkinYarki:
The sooner this man knows his father is one of those that damaged this country , the damage Wole Soyinka has dealt Nigeria far exceeds any gains his Nobel honor brought Nigeria .

atiku07:


Stop the lies dumbo, Wole was never a politician but a freedom fighter and that same man stood for jona dumbo when he was to be denied taking over from yaradua. Now cause same man sstood against ur man when he went wrong he is now part of those who destroyed naija oga u get sense so kids of now adays sef

Esseite:
Good one from the young lad, Nigerian youths should learn to stand for their rights and what is right.. and only give up such right at their own discretion..

For me Soyinka was only trying to use complex psychology on the young lad, if it was an honest mistake like his son claimed, it wont have created such uproar.

Shibaraba:
Him papa forgot to deposit sense into him Pikin head

Khaleell001:


Nothing psychological here.
You are just projecting your jaundice understanding .
The way some of you youths speak to elders in the name of rights goes to show ineptly stupid and shallow some of you reasoning are;and no matter how beautifully written and how you present your claims
.No doubt,the young man was within his right, but he lost a moral convention which is, courtesy and respect.
I, for one will never tell an old man, old enough to be my father to stand up from my seat how much more a man with the status of Wole Soyinka.
But youth like yourselves with their "over sabi" attitude would always pick the wrong persons to do their sparing "rights" with.

I may totally disagree with the prof in many philosophical and religious ethos, but that does not detract from me respecting him.

Esseite:
Good one from the young lad, Nigerian youths should learn to stand for their rights and what is right.. and only give up such right at their own discretion..

For me Soyinka was only trying to use complex psychology on the young lad, if it was an honest mistake like his son claimed, it wont have created such uproar.

Larryomooba:
So my elderly father mistakenly sat in the wrong airplane seat, & moved when asked.
It was a non-event until Mr Tonye Cole did an Instagram post about respect.
I thought I'd write to Mr Cole & share a memory about WS & an airline drama when he was shown great respect indeed. By Olaokun Soyinka

As shared below on his Twitter Page

9jaBloke:
I think this issue is being overflogged.
Let's analyse the players:

Prof. W.S;
He is over 80 years, so it is very possible that he took that seat by mistake
If it was deliberate and he prefered window seats for obvious reasons, he should have planned it better-Ask for the seat during booking, most airlines would be happy to indulge him.
He didn't see it as a big deal so he got up. There's absolutely nothing petty about WS.

Bobo Fine;
He is young and probably exuberant and may not have recognised or even known WS
He may have gone the extra mile to get a window seat
He is opinionated and non-conventional
We don't know his story (no one actually knows this guy's story so we can't keep judging him). He might have a condition, he might have been unstable, goodness knows!
He was operating within his rights so he actually commited no crime.

Tonye Cole:
Was okay to have tried to reason with Bobo Fine but should have stayed out of it after the incident.
Had no business uploading that picture.
Probably did it to trend and gain national popularity for his Guber ambition.

Nigeria:
There's already the underlying issue of lawlessness and lack of regard for orderliness.
There's also the issue of the elders' demand for respect and their sense of entitlement.
Also, many Nigerians will rather go sentimental and more often than not, the real issues are left unaddressed.

Me:
I totally totally adore Prof. Wole Soyinka, I've read almost everything he has published and his views and policies resonate with me. I will consider it a privilege for him to have my seat on a plane (deliberately or mistakenly).

That said, If i catch any unidentified elder on my seat, you will surely have to 'gbe bodi' but i will definitely demand it very politely.

It's not really about respect. I have maximum respect for senior citizens. I defer to ladies, children and the elderly.

I just think we have to restore order and enforce some basic social principles so that this country can have a good shot at working.