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Bola Ige’s daughter recounts haunting details ex-minister’s assassination

Funsho Adegbola, the daughter of the late Chief Bola Ige, has recounted the haunting series of events that led to her father’s assassination, revealing eerie premonitions and symbolic warnings.

Ige, Nigeria’s ex-Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation was assassinated in his Ibadan home on 23 December 2001.

In an emotional interview on the radio talk show State Affairs with Edmund Obilo, as reported by PUNCH Online on Friday, Adegbola shared her experiences surrounding the tragedy. “I dreamt I was mourning, dressed in black,” she revealed.

Troubled by the dream, she confided in her father. His response was reassuring yet unsettling in hindsight: “Nobody can kill me; my life is in God’s hands.”

Adegbola recounted a peculiar incident at the palace of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, just days before the assassination. During a chieftaincy ceremony for the late Chief Stella Obasanjo, Ige’s cap was mysteriously removed.

“He told me, ‘In my entire political life, nobody has ever removed my cap,’” Adegbola recalled, emphasising how deeply symbolic and unprecedented her father found the act.

Reflecting on her father’s life, Adegbola described his simplicity and moral integrity. “As Minister of Power and Steel, he returned 16 official cars assigned to him, saying, ‘I can’t maintain more than two cars,’” she said.

His Spartan lifestyle extended to his notably basic security arrangements. “After his assassination, Kema Chikwe visited our home and was shocked to see that our doors were ordinary carpentry wooden doors, easily breakable,” she shared. “My father had no bulletproof doors or elaborate security, unlike many public officials.”

Despite escalating political tensions and threats, Ige remained steadfast in his faith and courage. Adegbola remembered a warning from a friend who had read a newspaper article suggesting her father might not return alive from an upcoming visit to Ife.

“I told him, ‘Daddy, it appears they will do something to you.’ He replied, ‘I am surrounded by the White Light of Christ through which nothing evil can penetrate.’” Adegbola noted that her father fasted daily, except on Sundays, and relied on his spirituality to navigate challenges.

Adegbola also linked the threats to her father’s political battles, particularly with Iyiola Omisore, then Deputy Governor of Osun State, during the era of Governor Bisi Akande’s administration. “There were political uprisings in Osun State then, and tensions were high,” she said.

Her father’s assassination coincided with these conflicts, a connection that remains a painful mystery.

The inability to obtain justice for Ige’s murder remains a devastating wound for the family. Adegbola lamented how her mother, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, was unable to secure justice for her husband. “It was a cruel irony that broke her spirit,” she said.

Adegbola’s memoir, He Gave Me Wings, sheds light on the enduring impact of her father’s death on their family and the nation.

She emphasised his legacy of integrity, courage, and selfless service, contrasting it with the current state of governance in Nigeria. “My father always believed, ‘Anything worth living for is worth dying for.’ He never pursued power for personal gain but for the betterment of others,” she said.

Ige’s assassination, according to his daughter, remains an unresolved tragedy, “but his values and principles continue to inspire those who remember him; his life serves as a powerful example of leadership, even as the pursuit of justice for his death remains an elusive goal.”

https://punchng.com/bola-iges-daughter-recounts-haunting-details-of-his-assassination/?amp

Gone but never forgotten.

If you were here today, you would have stood firm and tall against the poorly implemented policies of the charlatans in power today... policies that are anti-masses and designed to perpetuate themselves in power at the detriment of the nation.

Who killed Bola Ige...?

iamnotillicit:
Who killed Bola Ige...?

Who killed Funsho Williams?

Bobloco:
Who killed Funsho Williams?

Who killed Prof Akunyili?

iamnotillicit:
Who killed Prof Akunyili?

I have got no idea

Who ordered the shooting of Lekki toll gate protesters?

ivandragon:
Bola Ige’s daughter recounts haunting details ex-minister’s assassination

Funsho Adegbola, the daughter of the late Chief Bola Ige, has recounted the haunting series of events that led to her father’s assassination, revealing eerie premonitions and symbolic warnings.

Ige, Nigeria’s ex-Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation was assassinated in his Ibadan home on 23 December 2001.

In an emotional interview on the radio talk show State Affairs with Edmund Obilo, as reported by PUNCH Online on Friday, Adegbola shared her experiences surrounding the tragedy. “I dreamt I was mourning, dressed in black,” she revealed.

Troubled by the dream, she confided in her father. His response was reassuring yet unsettling in hindsight: “Nobody can kill me; my life is in God’s hands.”

Adegbola recounted a peculiar incident at the palace of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, just days before the assassination. During a chieftaincy ceremony for the late Chief Stella Obasanjo, Ige’s cap was mysteriously removed.

“He told me, ‘In my entire political life, nobody has ever removed my cap,’” Adegbola recalled, emphasising how deeply symbolic and unprecedented her father found the act.

Reflecting on her father’s life, Adegbola described his simplicity and moral integrity. “As Minister of Power and Steel, he returned 16 official cars assigned to him, saying, ‘I can’t maintain more than two cars,’” she said.

His Spartan lifestyle extended to his notably basic security arrangements. “After his assassination, Kema Chikwe visited our home and was shocked to see that our doors were ordinary carpentry wooden doors, easily breakable,” she shared. “My father had no bulletproof doors or elaborate security, unlike many public officials.”

Despite escalating political tensions and threats, Ige remained steadfast in his faith and courage. Adegbola remembered a warning from a friend who had read a newspaper article suggesting her father might not return alive from an upcoming visit to Ife.

“I told him, ‘Daddy, it appears they will do something to you.’ He replied, ‘I am surrounded by the White Light of Christ through which nothing evil can penetrate.’” Adegbola noted that her father fasted daily, except on Sundays, and relied on his spirituality to navigate challenges.

Adegbola also linked the threats to her father’s political battles, particularly with Iyiola Omisore, then Deputy Governor of Osun State, during the era of Governor Bisi Akande’s administration. “There were political uprisings in Osun State then, and tensions were high,” she said.

Her father’s assassination coincided with these conflicts, a connection that remains a painful mystery.

The inability to obtain justice for Ige’s murder remains a devastating wound for the family. Adegbola lamented how her mother, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, was unable to secure justice for her husband. “It was a cruel irony that broke her spirit,” she said.

Adegbola’s memoir, He Gave Me Wings, sheds light on the enduring impact of her father’s death on their family and the nation.

She emphasised his legacy of integrity, courage, and selfless service, contrasting it with the current state of governance in Nigeria. “My father always believed, ‘Anything worth living for is worth dying for.’ He never pursued power for personal gain but for the betterment of others,” she said.

Ige’s assassination, according to his daughter, remains an unresolved tragedy, “but his values and principles continue to inspire those who remember him; his life serves as a powerful example of leadership, even as the pursuit of justice for his death remains an elusive goal.”

https://punchng.com/bola-iges-daughter-recounts-haunting-details-of-his-assassination/?amp

hmm 🤔 what a deep insight here. May baba bola ige soul rest in perfect peace

iamnotillicit:
Who killed Prof Akunyili?

Who killed Harry Marshall?

Your father Bola Ige was also responsible for the death of many civil servants in Osun state in the year 2000. He was Bisi Akande's godfather. He ordered him to sack civil servants in the state and that led to the death of many. Exactly one year after, he was disgraced, humiliated and murdered like chicken.

Carazon:
Who killed Harry Marshall?

Who killed Ahmed Gulak?

I was reading until I got to where I read that he fasted daily except on Sundays

TheFreshVanilla:
Your father Bola Ige was also responsible for the death of many civil servants in Osun state in the year 2000. He was Bisi Akande's godfather. He ordered him to sack civil servants in the state and that led to the death of many. Exactly one year after, he was disgraced, humiliated and murdered like chicken.

In a nutshell, you are supporting murder? If my employer sacks me from work, in your warped logic, it is a justifiable homicide for me to take his life?

Carazon:
Who killed Harry Marshall?

Who killed Aminasoari Dikibo that replaced the slain Harry Marshall as PDP Vice-Chairman SouthSouth?

I don't condone bad behavior, but if your actions caused so much pain that lives are lost, then you should forfeit any right to exist. You don't throw other families into mourning and expect yours to be happy.

Nnamdipapa:
In a nutshell, you are supporting murder? If my employer sacks me from work, in your warped logic, it is a justifiable homicide for me to take his life?

Nigerians are dying who is causing that rn?

Una go just open mouth waaaa and pour whatever is inside out without having second thought.

So he gave directive to a sitting Governor to sack workers because the Governor is dumb?

See how stupid that looks

TheFreshVanilla:
Your father Bola Ige was also responsible for the death of many civil servants in Osun state in the year 2000. He was Bisi Akande's godfather. He ordered him to sack civil servants in the state and that led to the death of many. Exactly one year after, he was disgraced, humiliated and murdered like chicken.

I remember how the news was reported back then. It was very devastating.

Bola Ige
Funso Williams
Harry Marshall
Abacha
Abiola

When will mystery behind thse dastardly acts be revealed?

Who killed close to hundred Youths, burnt their corpse and dumped it at Ezu River?

Who's James Nwafor worked for?

Bobloco:
Who killed Funsho Williams?

TheNiceGuy:
Who killed close to hundred Youths, burnt their corpse and dumped it at Ezu River?

Who's James Nwafor worked for?

They say, a clear conscience fears no accusations.

You seem agitated by that question. Do you know what we don't know?

We're both asking question but you seem angry, what happened?

Bobloco:
They say, a clear conscience fears no accusations.

You seem agitated by that question. Do you know what we don't know?

TheNiceGuy:
We're both asking question but you seem angry, what happened?

We both are not asking questions.


I asked, 'Who killed Funsho Williams?'

But you regaled us with a story about how nearly a hundred youths were killed, their corpses burned, and dumped in the Ezu River.

You even went further to ask, 'Who's James Nwafor working for?'

Are you insinuating that the police hierarchy sent James Nwafor? The last time I checked, he is a police officer who once headed the now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the police in Awkuzu.

Uncle Bola. The very last set of true Awoists. Not Tinubu,or the current set of SW APC who call themselves Awoists. Cos they are nothing but FAKE

May the soul of the Cicero of Esa Oké continue to rest in peace

I know many of you on this forum are dumb and have no clue about history. So let me ask you, how old were you in the year 2000?

TheNiceGuy:
Una go just open mouth waaaa and pour whatever is inside out without having second thought.

So he gave directive to a sitting Governor to sack workers because the Governor is dumb?

See how stupid that looks

Nnamdipapa:
In a nutshell, you are supporting murder? If my employer sacks me from work, in your warped logic, it is a justifiable homicide for me to take his life?

The hungry man who supports murder is a sadly common sight in Nigeria. If they aren't beating to death and burning petty thieves or pickpockets, they are shrieking for innocent people to be killed based on fabricated allegations of non-surgical phallus theft via voodoo magic. The simple fact is that madness and murderous rage are the predominant states of mind that afflict those perpetually hungry Nigerians who need NO excuse to do what they do best - which is to kill the innocent.

The old saying that equates hunger with anger assumes absurd dimensions in Nigeria where mob lynching is socially acceptable and legally condoned. That license to kill innocent people under ANY pretense is one of the precious few privileges enjoyed by swarms of hungry illiterates in Nigeria, therefore woe betide anyone who tries to deprive the famished masses of their vengeful blood sport whose cathartic release is so cherished.

Jakumo:
The hungry man who supports murder is a sadly common sight in Nigeria. If they aren't beating to death and burning petty thieves or pickpockets, they are shrieking for innocent people to be killed based on fabricated allegations of non-surgical phallus theft via voodoo magic. The simple fact is that madness and murderous rage are the predominant states of mind that afflict those perpetually hungry Nigerians who need NO excuse to do what they do best - which is to kill the innocent.

The old saying that equates hunger with anger assumes absurd dimensions in Nigeria where mob lynching is socially acceptable and legally condoned. That license to kill innocent people under ANY pretense is one of the precious few privileges enjoyed by swarms of hungry illiterates in Nigeria, therefore woe betide anyone who tries to deprive the famished masses of the vengeful pleasure of their blood sport whose cathartic release is so cherished.

I am still in shock at the justification for the murder of a country's Attorney
General. We have lots of potential murderers walking our streets daily.

Laugh wan kill me with the questions on who kill so and so person. In as much as there are no sufficient evidence to hold anyone responsible for the murder of those prominent people, we will only keeping guessing but with carefulness before one will be charged with a defamation suit.

I learnt he was up to solving the major issues of Nigeria not having a constant electricity by singing an agreement with a German company. He was killed a night to when he was suppose to depart to Germany..

He was the only true Chief Justice Nigeria ever hard..

iamnotillicit:
Who killed Ahmed Gulak?

Who killed Chuba Okadigbo?

More than 20 years, no one arrested apart from Fryo.

Your response really show who you are.

TheFreshVanilla:
Your father Bola Ige was also responsible for the death of many civil servants in Osun state in the year 2000. He was Bisi Akande's godfather. He ordered him to sack civil servants in the state and that led to the death of many. Exactly one year after, he was disgraced, humiliated and murdered like chicken.