Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, said those who conspired to catapult the Late Chief Bola Ige’s destroyers to unmerited national prominence have been justly served by the outcome of the Osun State governorship election.
Recall that Ademola Adeleke, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), defeated the incumbent governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, to emerge the winner of the State’s governorship election, which was held on Saturday.
Reacting to the ruling party’s loss in an issued statement yesterday, Soyinka said the voice of Ajibola Ige, slain Minister of Justice, resounded from beyond the grave.
Last April, the Nobel laureate had frowned at the emergence of Iyiola Omisore as the National Secretary of the APC, adding that his position in the ruling party puts paid to any re-investigation into the murder of the Late Bola Ige, a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
Omisore, who ran for governor of Osun State in 2018 before defecting to the APC, was the prime suspect in Ige’s murder in 2001.
“Those who conspired to catapult his destroyers to unmerited national prominence, to insult the memories of the living, and jettison basic ethical constraints, have been justly served”, Soyinka, a Professor of Comparative Literature, said in his statement.
“It is a lesson that speaks to other zones of rightful public expectations, equity, and just entitlements. One despairs, but continues to hope that there are still receptive minds in which such lessons will germinate”.
