Bola Ige’s murder: I’m ready to go to court – Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Thursday said he was ready to go to court to expose the killers of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige. Soyinka made this known at a media interaction in Lagos titled: “Forget the past, forfeit the future: A nation seceding from humanity.” […]
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Thursday said he was ready to go to court to expose the killers of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige.
Soyinka made this known at a media interaction in Lagos titled: “Forget the past, forfeit the future: A nation seceding from humanity.”
The media briefing was ostensibly in reaction to the reply to his earlier comment on Ige’s murder by the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Iyiola Omisore.
Ige was assassinated by suspected gunmen at his Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, home on December 23, 2001.
Following the election of Omisore as the APC national convention, Soyinka had issued a statement, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party of electing someone accused of Ige’s murder as the APC national secretary.
Omisore had also replied Soyinka, saying he was being used by his political detractors.
He told the Nobel Laureate to ask his cousin, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who killed the former minister.
The Nobel Laureate recalled that Omisore decapped a respected minister and threw the cap to thugs, noting that such action led to other actions.
Soyinka posited that such a person should not have been made the scribe.
Lagos lawyer, Chief Femi Falana (SAN), in his reaction, insisted that the killers of Chief Ige must be fished out, saying that Soyinka had reminded President Muhammadu Buhari of his pledge to open an enquiry into the country’s spate of political murders.
He assured the Nobel Laureate of free legal service if he was sued “Because you are taking on a public issue.”