Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said those who “conspired to catapult the slain Bola Ige’s destroyers to unmerited national prominence” have been justly served by the outcome of the Osun State governorship election.
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Sen. Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), winner of the state’s governorship election, last Saturday, over incumbent Governor Gboyega Oyetola.
Prof. Soyinka, in a statement issued, on Sunday, said the voice of Bola Ige resounded from beyond the grave by the APC’s defeat in the contest.
Said he, “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 declared.
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Prof. Soyinka said the outcome was a lesson that speaks to other zones of rightful public expectations, equity, and just entitlements.
According to Nobel Laureate, “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.”
