Noble laureate, wole Soyinka, has expressed excitement over the defeat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last Osun State governorship election.
Ademola Adeleke defeated incumbent Oyetola in the election.
But Soyinka says the APC was punished at the Osun governorship election for committing “sacrilege” against Bola Ige, late minister of justice.
Bola Ige, an AGF in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was killed on December 23, 2001.
Omisore, who was then a deputy governor of Osun state, was accused of involvement in the murder of Ige.
“When the results began to come in, I had just returned (from overseas). It was like a welcome present because I saw that party (APC) being punished for that act of sacrilege,” he said.
“The two parties (APC and PDP) have become very confusing to start with. Members have moved across so much. There has been so much inter-marriage and the bloodline has diluted in many aspects, being polluted in many aspects.
“It even got to a stage where a prominent member of the APC actually articulated the sentiment of ‘Oh, come and join us and your sins will be forgiven’.
“It didn’t surprise me too much that somebody who has been so heavily implicated in the death of a prominent member of that party, Bola Ige, he is a founding member, that his memories should be so thrashed by consulting one of the prominent figures who featured in the events – forget whether he was innocent of the actual crime or not – was heavily implicated in the humiliation of that individual, that founding member of that party who was also the minister of justice of this nation.
“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 is a bit of sacrilege. And remember, this Osun is Bola Ige’s state.”
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