Soyinka links APC defeat in Osun to late Ige murder

Prof. Wole Soyinka has reacted to the defeat of the APC in the Osun governorship election.

According to him, the defeat of Gov. Gboyega Oyetola by Ademola Adeleke of the PDP on Saturday is “the voice of Bola Ige resounding from the grave.”

Adeleke won the election with 403,371 votes, defeating the incumbent who polled 375,027 votes.

“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,” the Nobel laureate said in a statement on Sunday.

Soyinka was indirectly referring to Iyiola Omisore, the prime susect in the murder of Ige, a former justice minister in the PDP administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2001.

“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.”

Soyinka criticized the emergence of Iyiola Omisore as the national secretary of the APC in April, saying Omisore’s position in the ruling party puts paid to any re-investigation into the murder.

Omisore was in the PDP then, and remained there before he moved to the SDP in 2018 to contest Osun guber.

The re-run election between Adeleke and Oyetola then saw Omisore allying with the APC.