21 YEARS AFTER BOLA IGE: SPIRIT REMAINS IRREPRESSIBLE
#PDP BAD GOVERNANCE AND BOLA IGE FIGHTING SPIRIT
BEING MULTILINGUAL, CHIEF AJIBOLA IGE, SAN, FOUND IT CONVENIENT TO BE A GRASSROOT POLITICIAN OF UNCOMMON DIMENSION, SENIOR LAWYER, INTERNATIONAL ORATOR, BUT WAS GRUESOMELY MURDERED AT AGE OF 71, ON SUNDAY’S NIGHT, 23RD DECEMBER, 2001, AT HIS RESIDENCE, BODIJA, IBADAN, BY YET TO BE IDENTIFIED KILLERS.
WHO KILLED BOLA IGE?, THIS IS A BIG QUESTION FOR OBASANJO/ATIKU LED PDP GOVERNMENT (1999 – 2007)
WHY DID OBASANJO/ATIKU GOVERNMENT (1999- 2007) LOSE INTEREST IN MURDER CASE OF FORMER OYO STATE GOVERNOR (1979 – 1983), SITTING MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION (1999 – 2001)?
WHY DID FORMER OYO PDP GOVERNOR, SENATOR RASHEED ADEWOLU LADOJA, MAKE “A NO CASE” SUBMISSION” ON HIS ASSASSINATED POLITICAL LEADER’S CASE WHILE IN OFFICE?
SINCE OBASANJO/ATIKU LED PDP GOVERNMENT (1999 – 2007) KEPT MUTE ON BOLA IGE MURDER CASE THROUGHOUT, THIS MOST CELEBRATED MURDER CASE IN NIGERIA HAD SINCE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE MAIN REASON WHY THE PDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR, HAS BEEN A SERIAL LOSER OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SINCE 2007, AND NOW, GOD IS STILL ASSURING US THAT 2023, WON’T BE AN EXCEPTION. BOLA IGE SPIRIT IS ABOUT GIVING HIM A RED CARD TO QUIT POLITICS. PLEASE, WATCHOUT FOR DIVINE INTERVENTION, “IYAN OGUN ODUN, A MA JONI LOWO FELIFELI”. “AN OFFENCE COMMITED TWENTY YEARS AGO, CAN STILL BE REVISITED BY ALMIGHTY GOD”.
DASUKI GATE OR ARMS PROCUREMENT DEAL: ILLEGAL SHARING OF $2 BILLION ALLOCATED FOR THE PROJECT AMONG THE PDP HEAVYWEIGHTS , THROUGH THE OFFICE OF FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TO FORMER PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, SAMBO DASUKI, IS THE MAJOR REASON FOR CONTINUED BUT NOW REDUCED INSECURITY IN THE COUNTRY.
MISAPPROPRIATION OF WHOPPING $16 BILLION MEANT FOR POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN NIGERIA BY THE OBASANJO/ATIKU LED PDP GOVERNMENT, HAD SINCE CAUSED IRREGULAR POWER SUPPLY IN NIGERIA TILL DATE WHILE THE PRESIDENT BUHARI LED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JUST PAID AGREED $496 MILLION (8%) TO RESOLVE A MULTI – BILLION DOLLAR, $5.258 (100%), CLAIM BY GLOBAL STEELS HOLDING LIMITED, ON AJAOKUTA STEEL MILL, IN KOGI STATE, DUE TO 2008 PDP GOVERNMENT’S CANCELLATION OF 10 YEAR’S CONCESSION THAT HANDED OVER OWNERSHIP TO THE LATTER. MANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMPANIES ARE STILL BEING OWNED BY FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES OF FAILED CHAIRMAN OF THE PDP GOVERNMENT’S BUREAU OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES, (BPE), CHAMPIONING PRIVATISATION PROGRAMME OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES, ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR. THE MAJOR REASON FOR GROWING UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG THE EMPLOYABLE YOUTHS IN NIGERIA
ATIKU’S GREED AND DISRESPECT FOR JUSTICE, UNITY, AND PROGRESS IN NIGERIA, HAD MADE HIM TO DUBIOUSLY, WITH HELP OF ANOTHER NORTHERNER AND THE PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, SENATOR IYORCHIA AYU, FROM BENUE STATE, GET THE PDP PRESIDENTIAL TICKET THAT WAS MEANT FOR SOUTHERN NIGERIA THROUGH THE GENTLEMAN AGGREMENT OR ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY. THE APC NORTHERN GOVERNORS, PDP G – 5 GOVERNORS, 2 OTHER PDP FACTIONS, NNPP AND LABOUR PARTY ARE SAYING NO TO IT. “A SIN AGAINST HUMAN BEING, IS A SIN AGAINST GOD”. JUSTICE ON THE WAY COME SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
THE EMERGENCE OF AGGRIEVED PDP G – 5 GOVERNORS IS THE REPERCUSSION, TO AVENGE 2003 INJUSTICE AGAINST THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY, ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY (AD), G – 5 GOVERNORS, AREMO SEGUN OSOBA OF OGUN STATE, ALHAJI LAM ADESHINA OF OYO STATE, CHIEF BISI AKANDE OF OSUN STATE, CHIEF ADEBAYO ADEFARATI OF ONDO STATE AND OTUNBA NIYI ADEBAYO OF EKITI STATE. THEY WERE ALL ROBBED BROAD DAYLIGHT, OF THEIR 2ND TERM ELECTORAL VICTORIES THROUGH MASSIVE RIGGINGS THAT WEREN’T CHALLENGED IN TRIBUNALS BECAUSE IT WAS SO STRANGE TO THE VICTIMS, FUELLING SUSPICION BEHIND 2001 MURDER OF THEIR POLITICAL LEADER, CHIEF BOLA IGE.
AFTER SUCCESSFUL TAKING – OVER OF 5 SOUTHWESTERN STATES, THE PDP GOVERNOR OF OYO STATE, SENATOR RASHEED LADOJA, THEN SWEPT UNDER CARPET, THE BOLA IGE CASE FILE.
THE BITTER LESSON GOT FROM THESE THOUGHTLESS RIGGERS MADE THE OFFSHOOT OF ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY (AD), ACTION CONGRESS (AC), TO TAKE THE PDP GOVERNORS TO TRIBUNALS IN OSUN AND EKITI STATES IN 2007, TO RECLAIM THE 2 RIGGED SOUTHWESTERN STATES FROM THE ELECTIONS’ RIGGER, PDP, THESE HUMBLE EFFORTS YIELDED POSITIVE RESULTS 3 YEARS LATER, 2010.
BOLA IGE SPIRIT IS STILL CRYING FOR JUSTICE AND NOW, AFTER TOTAL DEMOLITION OF THIS FAKE UMBRELLA BUILDING, CALLED PDP, IN 2023, ALONGSIDE 2 OTHER FACTIONS, LABOUR PARTY (LP) AND NEW NIGERIAN PEOPLE’S PARTY (NNPP) BECAUSE TODAY’S PDP IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE CHIEF BOLA IGE WROTE ITS MANIFESTO IN 1998, ALONGSIDE ANPP AND AD.
WE ARE GLAD TODAY THAT THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY, ALL PROGRESSIVES’ CONGRESS (APC), BOTH AT THE CENTRE AND IN LAGOS STATE HAVE JUST CELEBRATED THIS MONTH OF BOLA IGE ASSASSINATION, DECEMBER, WITH HISTORIC COMMISSIONING OF 2 MONUMENTAL PROJECTS, 1.6 KM 2ND NIGER BRIDGE LINKING SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHSOUTH TOGETHER AND BLUE RAIL LINE IN LAGOS STATE BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, GCFR, AND GOVERNOR BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU, CONVERTING THE PAIN OF BOLA IGE ASSASSINATION FOLLOWED BY HAVING ONLY LAGOS STATE STANDING AFTER THE 2003 GENERAL ELECTION TO WIDER DISTRIBUTION OF DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY AND NOW, CONSTRUCTION OF LONG FORGOTTEN MAJOR BRIDGE AND BLUE RAIL LINE, TO GENERATE INCOME AND INCREASE EMPLOYMENT. WHAT A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT BY THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY? PLEASE, THE ONLY WAY TO SUSTAIN THIS TEMPO AND FIGHT AGAINST ALL FORMS OF INJUSTICE FROM PDP IS TO CONTINUE VOTING APC IN ALL ELECTIONS
CICERO OF ESA – OKE, AJIBOLA JAMES IDOWU IGE, SAN, LIVES ON!
COMRADE AWA BAMIJI
EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT
BOLA IGE CENTRE FOR JUSTICE
FRIDAY, 23RD DECEMBER, 2022