Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has faulted the large number of armed security personnel accompanying Seyi Tinubu, the son of President Bola Tinubu.
The literary icon spoke in Lagos while presenting an honorary award to Odia Ofeimun, the famous poet and activist who was honoured by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Soyinka mocked the situation, stating that President Tinubu should not have deployed Nigerian soldiers and air force officials to Benin to foil Sunday’s coup but should have asked Seyi Tinubu to go with his armed security escorts to foil the coup.
He revealed that he counted at least “15 heavily armed to the teeth” security officials who accompanied the president’s son at a hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Soyinka added that he was so astonished by what he saw that he reached out to the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to complain about it.
