OSUN ELECTIONS: Lagbaja Rejects Omisore’s Offer
Popular Nigerian singer, Bisade Ologunde, popularly known as Lagbaja, over the weekend reportedly turned down an offer by the Iyiola Omisore Campaign Organisation to perform at the grand reception for President Jonathan’s scheduled visit in Osogbo, the Nation reports.
Lagbaja
The President is scheduled to visit Osogbo next week.
According to The Nation, Lagbaja was approached to entertain supporters of Omisore, the candidate of PDP in the forthcoming August 9 governorship election in Osun State, but he declined the offer.
The award-winning Afrobeat artiste said: "Though the court of the land discharged and acquitted you (Omisore) in the murder case against the former Minister of Justice in Nigeria, the late Cicero of Esa-Oke & foremost nationalist, Chief Bola Ige, I have deep-rooted innermost conviction that you are culpable in the death of my mentor and benefactor. If you offer me all the allocation of Osun State during your four-year-tenure peradventure you win (which I seriously doubt), I will not perform for Iyiola Omisore governorship election.”
Senator Iyiola Omisore
Chief Biola Ige, the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, who was born on September 13, 1930, was on Friday, December 23, 2001, assassinated in his Bodija home in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Ige, who was killed shortly after a trip from Lagos with his son, was before his untimely death about to take up a new position as African's Representative on the United Nations International Law Commission.
Aside being a lawyer, Bola Ige was a politician. Following the restoration of democracy in 1999, Bola Ige sought the nomination of the Alliance for Democracy party as a presidential candidate, but was rejected.
He has, however, been appointed as the Minister of Mines and Power (1999-2000) by President Obasanjo.
His assasination may not be unconnected with his unwavering support for the former Osun State governor, Chief Bisi Akande, who was involved in a long-running feud with his deputy, Iyiola Omisore.
As he had been entangled in squabbles within his Alliance for Democracy party in Osun State.
Although various people were arrested and tried for involvement in the murder, including Senator Iyiola Omisore (a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State), all were, however, acquitted.
Source: Legit.ng
