Osun 22: Soyinka Reacts To APC Defeat

Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,

Professor Wole Soyinka has notef that the results of the Osun governorship 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 took the baton of leadership from the current governor of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adegboyega Oyetola, in the gubernatorial election conducted on Saturday.

The Nobel Laureate gave his speech in a statement exclusively obtained by Track News Nigeria on Sunday.

In his reaction to the loss of APC, Soyinka said the voice of Ajibola Ige, a slain Minister of Justice, resounded from beyond the grave.

In his words: “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.”