Bola Ige, The Predictor
By Lekan Alabi Last Sunday, September 30, this year, marked exactly the 35th year that the first civilian governor of the old Oyo State , (present Oyo and Osun States ) the late Chief ’Bola Ige, Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN) left office in a rather foggy circumstance. *Bola Ige Foggy in the sense that happenings preceding the gazetted end of his government were fraught with threats, betrayals, back stabbings etc. I intend, by this article, to recall history, but more importantly, to pull the ears of present-day enfant terrible in Nigeria ’s political space, that their disturbing acts of incivility, winner – takes – all, anti-party deals, etc., do not advance democracy and good governance. As I said earlier, Friday, September 30, 1983, 35 years ago, was the last day in office of Chief Ige, as the first Governor (present day ‘Executive’ prefix was not a fad then) of the old Oyo State. The last statement made by the late Chief Ige, inside the same Govern...