𝐒𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐲𝐢 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐛𝐮’𝐬 ‘𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞’ 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐭

He described seeing “an excessively large security battalion assigned to a young individual close to the Presidency,” an entourage he said was “sufficient to take over a small country.” Soyinka revealed that the young man turned out to be Seyi Tinubu, the President’s son.

“I was astonished,” he said, adding that “children must understand their place. They are not elected leaders, and they must not inherit the architecture of state power simply by proximity.”