Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka says he would be delighted to head to court over the death of the former minister of justice Bola Ige.
The professor of English had last week criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the emergence of former deputy governor of Osun State, Iyiola Omisore, as the party’s national secretary at its 2022 national convention.
According to Soyinka, Omisore is a prime suspect in Ige’s death. But the former deputy governor was acquitted alongside 10 others after they were arraigned in 2002 over Ige’s death.
Omisore replied Soyinka that a court had vindicated him. He also told the renowned playwright to ask his cousin former President Olusegun Obasanjo about Ige’s assassination in 2001.
However, speaking at a media interaction in Lagos on Thursday, Soyinka said Omisore should be made an envoy if the party desired to give him a post but not make him secretary.
“We are talking of the party of those in charge of the governance and justice of this country. The leadership of APC and I am not talking of Buhari alone, do you have to unleash scorpions on our memory?” He asked.
“It is not Soyinka who provided this. It’s those who were so insensitive, who rubbed that murder in our faces. I will be delighted to go to court so that we can go into details. I ask the APC leadership to have a rethink because the issue will not go away.”
