Renowned playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Sunday, paid what he referred to as a sympathy and solidarity visit to embattled Yoruba nation activist and self-styled freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic, IgbereTV reports
Confirming the visit, Soyinka’s media office in a statement, said the elder statesman who visited the agitator in the company of leader of the Yoruba self-determination group, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Banji Akintoye, was in Cotonou to celebrate the Eid-eI-Fitr with the activist.
According to the playwright’s media team, the erudite scholar was reportedly mobbed by a crowd of Nigerians who thronged the venue of the meeting to meet and greet him and his entourage.
Though the team did not divulge the details of the meeting, Soyinka was reported to have said he was in Benin to “break the Muslim fast with our son.”
