Earlier in the day, Sahara Group’s owner and Nigerian billionaire Tonye Cole took to social media to rant about how a young man disrespected Wole Soyinka by asking him to move to his rightful seat, a situation it has now been revealed, Soyinka was embarrassed about because of the attention it generated.
The man described by Tonye Cole as a man with a “t-shirt to show his muscled chest and tattooed biceps” has been identified as Tosin Odunfa, a PhD holder in electrical engineering and lecturer at the University of Mannittawiw.
According to him, he and the Nobel Laureate moved on to other matters after the incident and even exchanged contacts.
He also explained that he is on the autism spectrum and needed to stay at the window pane due to health reasons. Read his comment below:
While some are calling out Tonye Cole:
Same Tonye Cole that when he was campaigning for governor of Rivers State, his convoy killed two women in Abua/Odual LGA and uncle acted like nothing happened, today he wants to discuss “the morals of the Nigerian youth…and how we got to this point” truly sad indeed ?? https://t.co/HDM06RO3yK
— Lady B. (@KBUdeogu) June 24, 2019
Others making it about Wole Soyinka
When village elders told Soyinka to prostrate before them like every kid, he said ” If I don’t prostrate myself to God, why should prostrate to you?, you’re just a man like my father aren’t you? “
— Ayobami (@dondekojo) June 24, 2019
And some are more concerned about the man in the picture:
Even if I’m drunk and you pour thick hot pap on my two eyes, I can tell you that the boy photographed by Tonye Cole is not Tosin Odunfa.
It is not him.
This distraction is unnecessary. pic.twitter.com/H9eL19lAmt— Ndi Kato (@YarKafanchan) June 24, 2019
Tosin Odunfa is someone I’ve known for ages. He’s just a Presenter on Ebony Life TV and does nothing else but host TV shows & MC events. It can never be him, I’ve been screaming this.
Nigerians have been looking for the hero of this story and he just played into it. SMH. https://t.co/CF1BfTikZI
— Harri Obi™ (@Harri_Obi) June 24, 2019
Recall that Mo Abudu, founder of Ebony Life, had also voiced out her opinion on the issue. Now, it turns out that Odunfa is also her staff.
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