Bola Ige’s voice from the grave made APC lose Osun State – Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has mocked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the outcome of the Osun State governorship election.

Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 403,371 votes to defeat Governor Gboyega Oyetola and candidate of the APC, who secured 375,027 votes.

The PDP candidate won 17 local government areas while the incumbent governor secured victory in the remaining 13 LGAs.

In April 2022, Soyinka faulted the election of Iyiola Omisore as the National Secretary of the ruling APC.

He described Omisore as “one of the prime suspects” in the murder of Bola Ige, a former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF).

Soyinka said President Muhammadu Buhari’s acceptance of Omisore as APC National Secretary raises questions about his pledge to reopen the probe.

In a statement released a few hours after the announcement of the result of the 2022 Osun governorship election, the Nobel Laureate said Ige’s voice had resounded from beyond the grave to disgrace those who allegedly conspired to catapult his destroyers to unmerited national prominence.

“The voice of Ajibola Ige, slain Minister of Justice, resounds from beyond the grave. 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. It is a lesson that speaks to other zones of rightful public expectations, equity, and just entitlements,” he said.

“One despairs but continues to hope that there are still receptive minds in which such lessons will germinate. If we may adapt a wise saying from the ancients: the beast of burden, nicknamed Equity, ambles its mined course to destination but, sooner or later, that donkey arrives.”