Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says those who conspired to catapult the slain Bola Ige’s destroyers to unmerited national prominence have been justly served by the results of the Osun governorship election.
Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Ademola Adeleke, defeated incumbent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola to emerge winner of the Osun governorship election held on Saturday.
The Nobel laureate, in a statement on Sunday, said the voice of slain Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, resounded from beyond the grave by the APC’s defeat.
“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,” he said.
Soyinka described the outcome of the election as a lesson that speaks to other zones of rightful public expectations, equity, and just entitlements.
The Nobel laureate said, “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.”