Media mogul and philanthropist, Mo Abudu, has disclosed Professor Wole Soyinka’s reaction to the now-viral aeroplane incidence about a boy asking him to vacate a seat.
Oil mogul, Tonye Cole, had posted about the incidence on Instagram on Sunday sparking reactions.
In a Tuesday Instagram post, Mo Abudu revealed that she had been in correspondence with the Nobel Prize winner and had received his permission to share his mail to her on social media.
“Hallo Mo, 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. 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,” Soyinka had written.
Mo Abudu had also commented on the post saying that the young man who refused to yield his seat would get what was coming for him but said that she would not be commenting further.
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 as a young man.
