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Nigerian Former Attorney-General Bola Ige’s Daughter Recounts Having Premonition About Dad’s Assassination In 2001


Funsho Adegbola has recalled the unsettling events leading to the assassination of her father, Chief Bola Ige, Nigeria’s former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, who was killed at his Ibadan home on 23 December 2001.

In an emotional interview on State Affairs with ace broadcaster, Edmund Obilo, Adegbola shared her haunting premonitions.

“I dreamt I was mourning, dressed in black,” she revealed. Troubled, she confided in her father, who replied, “Nobody can kill me; my life is in God’s hands.”

She recounted an incident at the late Ooni of Ife’s palace, where Ige’s cap was mysteriously removed during a ceremony. “He told me, ‘In my entire political life, nobody has ever removed my cap.’”

Adegbola described her father’s simplicity. “As Minister of Power and Steel, he returned 16 official cars, saying, ‘I can’t maintain more than two cars.’”

She also revealed his basic security setup. “Kema Chikwe was shocked to see our doors were ordinary carpentry wooden doors.”

Despite threats, Ige remained spiritually steadfast. “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 linked the threats to political tensions involving Iyiola Omisore, then Deputy Governor of Osun State. “There were political uprisings in Osun State then, and tensions were high,” she said.

The inability to secure justice for Ige’s murder devastated the family.

“It was a cruel irony that broke her spirit,” Adegbola said of her mother, a Justice of the Court of Appeal.

In her memoir, He Gave Me Wings, Adegbola emphasised Ige’s legacy of integrity. “My father always believed, ‘Anything worth living for is worth dying for.’”

She concluded, “His life serves as a powerful example of leadership, even as the pursuit of justice for his death remains an elusive goal.”

God1000:
Nigeria lost a lot of good men during military era

EmperorCaesar:


Though still young, i remember this day

Make the assassins just live forever or shame on them if dem be ordinary mortal

God1000:
Nigeria lost a lot of good men during military era

God1000:
Nigeria lost a lot of good men during military era

Berankis:
This was even during our so-called democracy. I remember they always use this term then "our nascent democracy". I wonder why they have stopped using our nascent democracy again, it's no longer nascent buy we are yet to make any progress.

olubunmimary100:
Gbagi market shake that day.
Rest on Bola Ige

completeskills:
Vanity. Whatever power those that killed him were looking for, am sure they have realised that it certainly was not worth it. Power is transient but actions follows you forever. Both hired and the payers will never find peace because they took what they can't create. Curse on them.

God1000:
Nigeria lost a lot of good men during military era

God1000:
Nigeria lost a lot of good men during military era

God1000:
Nigeria lost a lot of good men during military era

femi4:
He was killed by Omisore

Political killings in obj era: funso Williams, Bola ige