Professor Wole Soyinka in a statement released from his home in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital on Sunday, said the voice of Ajibola Ige, slain Minister of Justice, resounded from beyond the grave by the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s defeat to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Ademola Adeleke.
Soyinka added, “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.”
According to Soyinka, “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.”
The Nobel Laureate also asserted that the outcome was a lesson that speaks to other zones of rightful public expectations, equity, and just entitlements.
Written by Adekunle Biodun