As President Tinubu shocked Prof. Wole Soyinka in Br …

Oh yes, this is the truth. Many people do not know it, since the news was safely buried right there in Brazil. You read me well.

Imagine: an entire Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize winner, literary lion, traveler of the continents. He endured thirty -six long hours in the belly of an airplane, wandering among the time zones, sitting lazily and only, just to arrive in Brazil. Fanfare was expected, respect, perhaps an incorational of words and wisdom. But what he obtained was the shock of his life.

In that vibrant land in which rhythm meets rhetoric and carnival, both culture and creed, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has staged a drama that has since left the languages ​​that are shaking through the continents. During a solemn meeting of global minds, Tinubu raised himself from his exalted presidential seat – the throne of the protocol and authority – and made the unthinkable: he looked straight Soyinka and said: “Egbon, come kindly sit here”.

Yes, you felt good. He got up, surrendered the chair and invited the professor to sit.

And this, dear readers, was the shock.

Not the shock of the insult, nor the shock of the ridiculous, but the shock of humility so overwhelming has stripped our Nobel Prize of its usual armor. How has a man who sat on Olympus of letters defends himself when he is attacked by reverence? How is a protest drowned in respect? In that room, Tinubu turned the tables and made the professor the victim: victim of courtesy, victim of honor, victim of the presidential deference.

The cameras flashed and the public loosened. And there were Soyinka – the lion of the pen, the gladiator of the grammar – very disarmed not by tyranny but from tenderness. The man who had dismissed the dictators with words was himself under a chair.

In politics, shock usually arrives with scandal, corruption or betrayal. But in Brazil, the shock was dressed in Agbada, transporting humility to one hand and respect in the other. Tinubu shocked Wole Soyinka, not decreasing it but drowning him in honor.

And so, the story will record: on Brazilian soil, Jagaban has committed the rarer political crime: he shocked a great man with dignity. After all, as our people say wisely, “when the elderly bow, young people have no excuses to get up in arrogance”.

God bless the day when Tinubu was born,
God bless the uterus who bores him,
God bless the time when President of Nigeria was made,
And may that same God smooth his path towards a second mandate.
Tinubu is a pride for this nation –
I greet the Borgu’s Jagaban!

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