Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was punished at the Osun governorship election for committing “sacrilege” against a slain former Minister of Justice, Bola Ige.
Soyinka made the statement during an interview with Channels Television’s on Monday.
He noted that it was shocking that the APC could make someone who was implicated in Ige’s murder one of its executives.
“To actually catapult one of those crime suspects and proven contributors, and to find that that person has been given a position in that party (APC), in governance, and after the President (Muhammadu Buhari) had actually inaugurated a re-examination of that episode amongst other crimes, that is quite a bit of shock.
“And I mentioned at a time, that it is a bit of sacrilege. And remember, this Osun is Bola Ige’s State,” Soyinka said.
Ige, who served in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was assassinated on December 23, 2001 at his Ibadan residence in the Oyo State capital.
