Tag: Iyiola Omisore

Ask Your Cousin, Obasanjo, for Ige Murder, Omisore Tells Wole Soyinka

Gbenga Adeoti

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore has accused people he described as “drowning politicians” of spreading propaganda against him. He lamented that a decade after the Bola Ige murder case, Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka still referred to him as a prime suspect, despite being cleared by the court. Omisore,  a former deputy governor of Osun State, said it was curious that Soyinka, who accused the Obasanjo government of complicity in Ige’s death when he described the government “as a nest of killers”, could now describe him…

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Ige, Omisore And APC: Perhaps Closed Files Should Remain Just That-Closed?

Wole Soyinka

Revealing and read-for-yourself statement by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Bola Ige’s assassination and emergence of ‘prime suspect,’ Iyiola Omisore, as National Secretary of the ruling APC. Two decades after, the controversy surrounding the assassination of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, has, again, come into national limelight. On Saturday, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in a statement entitled, “Perhaps closed files should remain just that-closed?”, said the resumption of investigation into the murder was already hamstrung and disrobed of credibility with the…

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