Apparently in response to the callon Osun and Oyo State governments by Chief Femi Falana to do something about the case against suspected murders of Chief Bola Ige, slain former Attorney- General of the Federation, the two governments have jointly resolved to revisit the case within the next one year.Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, stated this during a public lecture organised by the Bola Ige Movement to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the murder of the politician.Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, while also reacting, said since murder case could never close, the case would be revisited and pursued vigorously.He, however, called on Mr Falana to refrain from taking briefs in cases brought to him by non-progressives as a true demonstration of a progressive lawyer that he called himself.Aregbesola, in a lecture entitled Political Violence, Assassination: Implication and Future of Democracy in Nigeria, which he delivered, traced the genesis of political assassination in the country from the military era and decried the non-revisiting or atonement of the murders committed during the era as unhealthy for the nation.He added that the quest to get political power and all its attendant paraphernalia by those whose interest was not to serve but to milk the citizens necessitated the use of brute force and violence to get to power and maintain a tight grip of such illegitimate authority as witnessed in the region recently.'The prime suspect of Ige's assassination ingloriously won a senatorial seat while he was being held in a maximum prison in Ibadan. That same man, when the spirit of Ige fully returned, could not win in his ward.'Professor Wole Soyinka appropriately called the PDP a nest of killers. Obasanjo's era witnessed an upsurge in political assassination more than any other government in the history of the nation. He promoted and elevated violence as a means of getting political power. That evil, that abominable crime will haunt him for the rest of his life.'The PDP, with its host of bad elements, had been swept away and never will they have an inch of Yorubaland. The Yoruba are now politically united. The PDP-led Federal Government could not fish Uncle Ige's murders because they knew where the chase would lead,' Aregbesola said, in a lecture that was intermittently punctuated by ovation and thunderous applause.Earlier, the chairman on the occasion and former governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina, said the perpetrators of the assassination of Chief Ige could be located within those in control of the Federal Government at the time of his assassination.Chief Ige served as Power and Justice minister between 1999 and 2001when Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was the president of the country.Recalling how he devastated by the news of Ige's murder , the former governor said he received a phone call from the then president Obasanjo who sought to know if Chief Ige was 'certified dead.
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