Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that he is happy that the All Progressives Congress lost the Osun State governorship election.
He said he was very close to the state, even more than his Ogun State, citing the fact that his friend, the late Chief Bola Ige, was from there.
Ige was assassinated in his Ibadan home in 2001.
All efforts to unravel the killers have proved abortive with some, especially Soyika, saying the APC’s Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, remained implicated.
He is does angry that the politician has been elevated though the law has not found him guilty.
He said he felt relieved that the party had been accordingly punished when the Peoples Democratic Party’s Ademola Sdeleke defeated the APC’s Adegboyega Oyetola.
In an interview on ‘Channels Television’ on Monday, Soyinka said:
“I have contributed more to Osun even than Ogun. I consider it my state, my second home. But when the result came I was happy because that party has been punished for that sacrilege.
“Whether ornot he is innocent is irrelevant. He was implicated in the humiliation of that figure, who was also the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation. He was one of the prime suspects, one of the contributors to the elimination of Ige.”
According to him, elevating Omisore in the APC rank is sacrilege and laceration of the memory of the victim.
