In a speech at his funeral, he was quoted to have said that, "he was sure Nigeria was worth living for but he was not so sure it was worth dying for". Although due to the lack of proper documentation, most of us might have forgotten a valiant Nigerian lawyer and politician who was once the Federal Minister of Justice for Nigeria.
On 23 December 2001, Bola Ige was shot dead at his home in the south-western city of Ibadan. He had been entangled in squabbles within his Alliance for Democracy party in Osun State. The previous week, the long-running feud between Osun state Governor Bisi Akande and his deputy, Iyiola Omisore, had apparently contributed to the death of an Osun State legislator, Odunayo Olagbaju. Ever since then, Nigeria as being through various ups and downs.
It's now over 13yrs, can we as Nigerians claim these words are errs? Today, can we gladly or perhaps proudly lay our lives down for the greatness of this nation? Has nothing changed? Did the situation aggravate or grow better?