Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has expressed interest in the legal proceedings to unravel the killers of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige.
Prof. Soyinka had in a statement over the weekend said endorsement of Senator Iyiola Omisore as the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by President Muhammadu Buhari would hinder judicial inquiries into Bola Ige’s death because the former deputy governor of Osun State is a prime suspect in the murder case.
Omisore, who was arraigned in court in 2002 for Ige’s murder but later acquitted alongside 10 others tried for the case, described as “unnecessary propaganda”, the mentioning of him as a prime suspect in the murder of the former governor of old Oyo State.
The former deputy governor of Osun State expressed displeasure that a decade after the Bola Ige murder case, Prof. Soyinka still referred to him as a prime suspect, despite being cleared by the court.
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He further instructed his lawyer to write Soyinka demanding a retraction of the comments, adding that “civil and criminal law knowledge should tell professor to ask his cousin, OBJ for the murder.”
However, the Nobel laureate, while speaking at a media interaction in Lagos titled, ‘Forget the past, forfeit the future: A nation seceding from humanity’, said a man, who was guilty of attacking the Minister of Justice in the presence of people is not fit to emerge as the National Secretary of a ruling party.
Soyinka said: “We are talking of the party of those in charge of the governance and justice of this country. The leadership of APC and I am not talking of Buhari alone, do you have to unleash scorpions on our memory?
“It is not Soyinka who provided this. It’s those who were so insensitive, who rubbed that murder in our faces.
“I will be delighted to go to court so that we can go into details. I ask the APC leadership to have a rethink because the issue will not go away.”
Bola Ige was was assassinated by suspected gunmen at his Bodija residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on December 23, 2001.
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