“Osun State elections: Ige’s voice.”-Prof. Wole Soyinka

“Osun State elections: Ige’s voice.”-Prof. Wole Soyinka

An Elder statesman, Prof Wole Soyinka, has reacted tó the poll won by Adeleke, indicated that the slain Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige’s voice resounded from the grave.

The Nobel laureate spoke in a statement on Sunday titled, “Osun State elections: Ige’s voice.”

Ige, also an ex-governor of old Oyo State, was assassinated by suspected gunmen at his Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, home on December 23, 2001.

Soyinka said, “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. 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.”

The playwright in April 2022, protested against the emergence of a former deputy governor of Osun State, Chief Iyiola Omisore, as APC’s national secretary at the party’s 2022 national convention held between March 26 and 27, where 77 national officers emerged.

Soyinka, in a statement, Sunday, said the voice of Ajibola Ige, slain Minister of Justice, resounded from beyond the grave by the All Progressives Congress, APC’s defeat.

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,” he declared.

Soyinka said the outcome was a lesson that speaks to other zones of rightful public expectations, equity, and just entitlements.

According to Nobel laureate, “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.

“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.”