APPOINTING PRIME SUSPECT IN IGE'S MURDER APC SECRETARY DISCREDITS PROBE - SOYINKA

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday said the resumption of investigation into the murder of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was already hamstrung and disrobed of credibility with the emergence of a prime suspect in the case as the National Secretary of the ruling All Progressive Congress.

The playwright expressed the view in a statement on Saturday titled, "Perhaps closed files should remain just that closed?"

It was reported that Iyiola Omisore emerged as the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress at the party's convention on Sunday.

Ige was shot dead in his home in Ibadan on December 23, 2001.

Omisore and 10 other suspests were arrested and arraigned for the murder of Bola Ige. They were later acquitted and released.

Soyinka said, "With the emergence of the said prime suspect as National Secretary of the ruling party, is the Inspector General of Police equipped to confront political obstacles in a resumption of investigation? Is there any guarantee that the result will see the light of day? How suspect, ab initio, will be the conclusions, given the present political ordering?

"To this layman, that investigative revisit is already hamstrung and disrobed of credibility. I think the nation should simply relieve President Buhari of his pledge. I am certain the Inspector General of Police will be equally relieved and can now turn his mind and energy to the national accustomed posture Business as Usual."