bola dont forget to say hi to the people that you let sharia kill and the ones that the nigerian soldiers executed

If you ended up in hell well then bad luck but breathe easy abacha and friends will keep you entertained while you do your caligula oration

How are the mighty fallen! this aptly captures the gradual but steady fall of Chief Bola Ige, the Cicero of Esa-Oke who incidentally is the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation.
Like a classic Shakespearian tragic drama, it came in stages. For instance, Ige was completely demystified when it became obvious that he was harbouring grievances against Alliance for Democracy (AD) kingmakers for picking Chief Olu Falae in his stead in the 1998 AD primaries.
Ige’s political arrant mediocrity started manifesting soon after he was magnanimously appointed Minister of Power and Steel in President Olusegun Obasanjo’s first cabinet. Many had expected Chief Ige, then still held in high political esteem, to kick against this appointment on the ground that the portfolio assigned to him was not in tandem with his calling as a legal practitioner. He did not.
Chief Ige, without taking time to actually ascertain the extent of human and material decay at the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), loquaciously told hapless Nigerians that after six months of his stay as Power and Steel Minister, erratic power supply would be a thing of the past. Sadly, Uncle Bola failed. Power outages assumed a horrendous dimension in his reign.
Having reneged on this, Nigerians expected Ige to resign and render unreserved apology. Rather than take this path of honour, Uncle Bola, quite inscrutably, decided to play god.
He was saddled with the responsibility of Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation. Sadly, this latest assignment brought out the real petard in Ige. He lampooned agitators of Sovereign National Conference, a cause he once championed! On the sharia legal system, Ige discountenanced the position of his party and declared the legal system constitutional without recourse to the law court. He has also been fingered as the sour root of the crisis in Osun State where Governor Bisi Akande and his deputy are engaged in a political macabre dance.
Probably, the greatest undoing of Chief Ige in his scores of gross political miscalculations, is his poignant stand of taking to court the southern governors who agitated for resource control. Frankly, time changes everything. Ige, who as governor of the old Oyo State and second in command in the hierarchy of Afenifere was hailed to high heavens because of his unshakeable disposition to restructuring and equity, now opposes all the views he hitherto stood for. This pygmy award is for the self-annihilation of everything and anything that the name Bola Ige, ever stood for. O ma se, o!

Ige and the OPC connection

I bet you this guy also left a litter of illegitimate children. Pretty soon they shall begin to emerge ala MKO.

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Just last Thursday, a peace meeting was called by the Oini of Ife (Oba Okinade Syowedi] and 11 other traditional rulers at the Ife palace. Chief Bola Ige, Chief S.M. Afolabi and others were there. But you know what? At the end of that meeting, this other faction unleashed mayhem at the palace! They killed three people Yoruba-on the palace grounds and attempted to kill me. That cannot be OPC. OPC cannot kill Yoruba people. Dr. Fasheun's interview to the Guardian

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As usual, a committee was set up to investigate. The senate committee made many recommendations: some specifically regarding the presence of Bola Ige and Afolabi at the murder scene and involvement of ministers in so called 'peace meetings'.

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Perhaps, as a way of justifying the observation, the Aliyu team condemned Bola Ige and Sunday Afolabi, ministers of Power and Steel and Internal Affairs respectively for attending a peace meeting of the OPC factions last December. The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, had, on 9 December 1999, hosted both Fasehun and Adams in his palace during a peace meeting attended by prominent Yoruba leaders including the two ministers. The committee called on Obasanjo to apply sanctions against public officers and traditional rulers that associate with militant groups. It was, however, silent on what sanctions to be applied. Senate report news

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If you are not in Ogboni you will not be in the inner circle of this godless governement of Obasanjo.

To the poor fela who asked where is the money? I boldly reply, son, the money was in our bank. Since we heard of the depositor's demise, my government froze his accounts and impounded it into our funds for the rehabilitaion of illegal aliens from Africa currently over crowding our jail houses.

This is actually part of our national budget. Over the years, we have correctly projected that no less than 60% of oil purhases from your country will endup coming back to our banks. We then count on impounding 30% of those every year. The depositors know better than to complain; they are either dead, on excile, or bearly surviving in their homeland.

I will say you ask that question of whom you know is still alive and is a position to present your governments complete financial statement. Your auditors should be able to answer that question. Mr Ige is dead and gone, if he stole money, your records should tell the story.

Keyamo, who said the case is a test case that requires indepth investigation said, it cannot be swept underground as it has the capacity of sweeping away the nascent democracy in the country.

The lawyer who declared this in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust stated that the link between the Presidency and the murder should be thoroughly investigated to ascertain the flow of funds between Abuja and Osun State Deputy Governor, Otunba Iyiola Omisore.

According to him, this is imperative to stem the continued murder of citizens by those in power, saying that the perpetrators of unravelled Murders in our political history were perpetrated by those in power.

Said he: "All unresolved murders had to do with those in power. All. Is it Kudirat, Belgeda Kalto, Abiola. All of them, so this is a test case for us to challenge public officers. When we have the facts we have statements to challenge them."

The lawyer stressed, however, that the case is going to stretch out criminal justice system and democracy.

Said he: "This is a test case, to test the integrity of public officers, the integrity of those indicted, test the integrity of those who are supposed to investigate those indicted and the House of Assembly as well."

Stressing that the era of silence is over, Keyamo, urged the various segments of government to rise to the occasion and play their role not minding whose ox is gored in the overall interest of the nation, adding that the case has potentials of stretching over constitutional provisions.

Keyamo disclosed to Daily Trust that the suspect (Frayo) came into his office last Thursday, evening, and that his modus operndi over the case was informed by his lack of faith in our criminal justice system.

According to him, his strategy has been to take the case, more of, to the Nigerian people, saying that he has not taken the matter to court but merely registered his client's affidavit in court in order to make it a public document.

He stressed that the case like the Senator Tokumbo Afi Kuyumi matter fell on his lapse unsolicited and that any allegation that he is seeking fame and fortune is unfair as he never sought for it.