Osun Poll: Bola Ige’s Voice Rose From The Grave — Soyinka Reacts To APC Loss

Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the outcome of the Osun gubernatorial election is a lesson to those who elevate persons with moral baggage and questionable character to “unmerited national prominence.”

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate Ademola Adeleke defeated a sitting governor of the All Progressives Congress Adegboyega Oyetola in the governorship election held on Saturday.

Reacting to APC’s defeat in a statement on Sunday, Soyinka said the voice of Ajibola Ige, a slain Minister of Justice, resounded from beyond the grave.

He said: “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.

“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.”