Yoruba leader, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo, has revealed that he and others warned the late Bola Ige from joining
the government of Olusegun Obasanjo.
Ige, who served as Minister of
Justice, was murdered in December 2001.
Adebanjo, in his autobiography
titled, ‘Telling It As It Is,’ described Obasanjo’s govt as a calamity.
“We were opposed to Ige joining
Obasanjo’s cabinet but he accepted the appointment oblivious of the fact that
Obasanjo was not inviting him in good faith.
“Bola Ige didn’t need Obasanjo,
it was Obasanjo who needed Ige”, he said.
The author, however, described
Chief Ige as brilliant and one of the greatest Awoist.
The book reviewer, Professor Wale
Adebamwi, added: “How a man (Ige) of such superb and enviable endowment could
join the cabinet of one of the most perverse figures in our political history
is a question that the author attempts to grabble with in this book”.
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When you get done with your tongue-in-cheek statements you will be quiet you political buffoons.
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