National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Iyiola Omisore, has linked former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to the murder of one-time Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Bola Ige.

Omisore was reacting to the statement by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who referred to him as a prime suspect in Bola Ige’s murder and queried his emergence as APC National Secretary despite being inked to Ige’s brutal killing on December 23, 2002.

Omisore, a former deputy governor of Osun State, said it was curious that Soyinka, who accused the Obasanjo government of complicity in Ige’s death when he described the government “as a nest of killers”, could now describe him as a suspect in 2022.

The Nobel Laureate had in a statement at the weekend said that Omisore’s endorsement as APC Secretary by President Muhammadu Buhari would tamper with judicial inquiries into Ige’s death because he is a prime suspect in the murder case.

Taking exception to the eminent scholar’s statement, Omisore said in a statement issued on Sunday, April 3, 2022: “It is an unnecessary propaganda some drowning politicians are trying to spread.”

According to Omisore in a statement by his office, “As brilliant as Prof. Soyinka is, he, no doubt, has no monopoly of knowledge. If the court of the land has vindicated a man, it is naive of him after nearly a decade to link Senator Iyiola Omisore to further search.”

Looking in the direction of Ex-President Obasanjo, who is fondly called OBJ, Omisore advised that people “civil and criminal law knowledge should tell professor (that is, Soyinka) to ask his cousin, OBJ for the murder.”

The statement further said: “The world is aware of the framing of Senator Iyiola Omisore and his travails and trials facing murder charges and his subsequent acquittal and discharge, almost a decade ago by a competent court of the land.

“So, how come any man, can still refer to him as a possible suspect? The Prof is very wrong to say all that. It takes wickedness to spread the statements.”

Omisore alleged that despite the fact that not all Soyinka’s intervention in national life has produced the expected outcome in the long run, society has continued to hold him in esteem.

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