ADESIYAN CHIDES BOLA IGE’S SON, MUYIWA, OVER COMMENTS

Minister-designate, Alhaji Abdujelili Oyewale Adesiyan, on Thursday described as unfortunate comments made by the son of late former Attorney-General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, Muyiwa Ige, accusing him of having a case to answer over his alleged involvement in the death of his father.
Muyiwa, who is the Commissioner for Land and Physical Planning in Osun State, had said in an interview that Adesiyan should tell the whole world why he and his family fled the day Ige was killed and the role he played when Ige’s cap was removed in Ife some days before his assassination.
The minister, in a statement issued and made available to newsmen in Lagos by his counsel, Kehinde Adesiyan, said that Muyiwa’s recent outburst was not only unfortunate, but contemptuous against the issue that had been cleared by a court of competent jurisdiction.
He has consequently asked him to retract the statement without further delay to avoid being sued for libel, just as he admonished him to henceforth desist from raising such questions or issues again.
“We also wish to state on behalf of our client that woes and perpetual torments be the lot of the killers or whosoever masterminded the killing of late Uncle Bola Ige,” he said.
“It is our client’s instruction to appreciate the fact that you are one of the biological children of late Chief Bola Ige, who was gruesomely murdered by yet to be identified gunmen in his house at Bodija, Ibadan in 2001. Our client, however, viewed with disgust your unguarded outburst and shallow mediocrity about those you believed masterminded the death of your late father.
“Your reference to Alhaji Abdul Jelili Oyewale Adesiyan as having a case to answer in your recent interview in the media shows you and your other siblings’ unrepentant desperation to continue to benefit from the untimely death of your father and that would not allow your highly revered father to have a rest in peace,” Adesiyan’s counsel said.
The minister-designate’s counsel reminded Muyiwa that he might wish to know that those he knew, right inside his mind, killed your his father were, today, the direct beneficiaries of his father’s untimely death, as some of them would not have been in positions they held now if Ige were to be alive.
This is as he also reminded Muyiwa about the inconsistencies contained in the statements when he was giving evidence before Honourable Justices Atilade Ojo and Akin Sanda of the High Court of Oyo State, at the trial of the minister-designate, Alhaji Adesiyan, Senator Iyiola Omisore and others in 2003.
Source: Tribune