Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has described Saturday Osun governorship election, won by Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a just reward for those whom he alleged killed the late Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Bola Ige and those who connived to elevate the culprits to national prominence.
In the governorship election, Adeleke defeated incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress ,APC, with a margin of over 47,000, clinching 17 of the 30 Local Government Areas to 13 for Oyetola.
According to Soyinka. “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.”
