Former Rivers state governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, has shared his experience on an airplane involving literary giant, Wole Soyinka.
The 52-year-old business mogul in an Instagram post on Sunday disclosed that a young man asked that the professor vacate a window seat he had reserved.
“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. I couldn’t understand how we got to this point where we no longer have respect for elders,” he wrote in parts.
The Supreme Court in April had ended the hope of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Tonye Cole to challenge the outcome of the March 9, 2019 governorship elections held in Rivers State.
A seven-man panel of judges of the apex court led by acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, struck out three appeals by the APC for being incompetent and defective, saying the matters could not be heard by the court.
The APC had through its lawyer, Jubrin Okutekpa, SAN, approached the Supreme Court, praying it to set-aside its previous decisions that validated lower court judgments that barred it from participating in the Rivers elections.
