Ladoja vs Akande: Arewa Suppose Tank requires probe into unresolved high-profile assassinations

ladoja vs akande: arewa think tank calls for probe into unresolved high profile assassinations

The Arewa Suppose Tank (ATT) has weighed in on the controversy surrounding former Osun State Governor Chief Adebisi Akande’s declare that ex-Oyo State Governor, Chief Rashidi Ladoja could have data on the 2001 assassination of former Legal professional Normal and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige. 

Ladoja has strongly denied the allegation, threatening authorized motion towards Akande. 

In an announcement on Tuesday, ATT’s Chief Convener, Muhammad Alhaji Yakubu, famous that the alternate between Akande and Ladoja presents a possibility to revisit previous unresolved assassinations of distinguished Nigerians. 

The group urged President Bola Tinubu to take instant motion by launching a contemporary probe into comparable high-profile killings throughout the nation.

“Arewa Suppose Tank stands by Chief Adebisi Akande’s narrative. In furtherance to this narrative, we’re urging President Bola Tinubu to probe previous high-profile murders of senior residents within the nation, together with Harry Marshall and Dokubo, amongst different such killings in order that historic justice might be completed to these affected households.

“As well as, we now have it on good authority that it was Ladoja’s authorities that filed a Nolle Prosequi within the decrease courtroom. And that’s the reason the case didn’t get to the Supreme Court docket. If nevertheless the case had gone to the Supreme Court docket, it wouldn’t have served public curiosity for the proof such because the case quantity to be revealed,” the assertion stated.

Akande had in a current interview implied that Ladoja might need essential details about Ige’s homicide. He lamented that people who might have offered readability on the case, equivalent to former Oyo State governor Lam Adesina, had handed away.

The elder statesman instructed that Ladoja had a task in withdrawing Ige’s homicide case, asserting that Adesina had pursued the matter legally earlier than Ladoja took over as governor.

“There are numerous issues that die with folks,” Akande stated. “Lam Adesina went to courtroom over this matter, however his successor, Ladoja, withdrew the case. When you ask him, he would know extra about Bola Ige’s demise.”

Akande, who served as Osun State governor on the time of Ige’s assassination, maintained that since Adesina was the chief safety officer of Oyo State, he was in a greater place to analyze the case.

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He added that essential conversations he had with Adesina in regards to the case couldn’t be disclosed. “Now that Bola Ige and Lam Adesina are each lifeless, who will probably be my witness?” Akande stated.

Nonetheless, the report stated Ladoja dismissed Akande’s remarks as baseless and unfaithful. 

He emphasised that his administration didn’t intrude with the case and acknowledged that it was pursued by the Supreme Court docket.

He additionally clarified that he assumed workplace 18 months after Ige’s assassination, making any suggestion of his involvement illogical and false.

“Chief Bola Ige was murdered on December 23, 2001, whereas I turned governor on Could 29, 2003,” Ladoja acknowledged. “Neither I nor my authorities withdrew the case. It was prosecuted by the Supreme Court docket.

“Chief Akande has falsely accused me and this isn’t the primary time he has been known as out for making unfaithful statements – Baba Adebanjo even famous this in his e book.”

Ladoja expressed his sorrow over Ige’s demise and highlighted his shut relationship with the late minister. 

He additionally issued a warning to Akande, demanding a public retraction and apology, failing which he would take into account authorized motion.

Chief Bola Ige, chieftain of the opposition Alliance for Democracy (AD), was appointed Minister of Mines and Energy by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. Nonetheless, after failing to realize vital progress in Nigeria’s energy sector, he was reassigned as Minister of Justice and Legal professional Normal in 2000.

On December 23, 2001, he was assassinated at his Ibadan residence, a case that is still unresolved.

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