{"id":1716,"date":"2025-02-04T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-02-04T07:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:19:02","slug":"ige-murder-why-i-threaten-legal-action-against-chief-bisi-akande-ladoja-says-i-know-nothing-about-iges-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/ige-murder-why-i-threaten-legal-action-against-chief-bisi-akande-ladoja-says-i-know-nothing-about-iges-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ige murder: Why I threaten legal action against Chief Bisi Akande -Ladoja   &#8230;Says I know nothing about Ige&#8217;s murder\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r3225585095431973347\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Reporter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Former governor of Oyo State, and the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland,\u00a0 Senator Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, has\u00a0 threatened\u00a0 to drag the former Osun state governor\u00a0 , Chief Bisi Akande to court for defamation over the killing of Chief Bola Ige.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recall that Chief Bola Ige , a former Attorney\u00a0 General and Minister of Justice was brutally murder on December 23, 2001\u00a0 following his assassination by yet-to-be identified individuals in Solemilia Court, No 8, Akinlabi Sanda Close, Bodija in Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The gruesome murder also led to the sudden death of Justice Atinuke, his wife; and destabilized his family.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chief Ladoja who openly challenged\u00a0 Chief Bisi Akande said he knows nothing about the death of a former minister of Justice and Attorney General of the federation, late Chief Bola Ige.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He called on Chief Akande\u00a0 to apologise and make a retraction,\u00a0 or face legal action.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ladoja refuted the assertion while addressing\u00a0 journalists at his residence on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It will also be recalled\u00a0 that\u00a0 Chief Bisi Akande had claimed that Ladoja had some hidden information about the death of Bola Ige, but, Ladoja while addressing journalists at his residence insisted that Akande lied against him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former governor challenged Akande to go public with details of of any information he has over the death of Bola Ige.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI don\u2019t have any hidden knowledge about the death of Chief Bola Ige. I had no problem with Bola Ige.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cMaybe Chief Bisi Akande wants to sell his book. I don\u2019t know. There is no correlation between by election and the death of Ige.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8221; He should come out and tell the public instead of maligning my image. But, all options are open. As Otun Olubadan, I am no more a politician\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chief Bola Ige was about to take up a new position as Africa\u2019s Representative on the United Nations International Law Commission when he was gunned down in Ibadan, Oyo state by yet to be identified gunmen.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bola Ige\u2019s assassination was linked to an altercation that happened at the palace of the then Ooni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade Okunade during the conferment of chieftaincy title on some individuals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Ige was mobbed by an angry crowd as they stripped him of his necklace, cap and destroyed his pair of medicated glasses.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The group was led by a certain \u2018Fryo\u2019, a known political thug loyal and devoted to Omisore. It was an obvious breach of his security and attempt to eliminate him openly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Before then, Chief\u00a0 Ige had been entangled in squabbles within his party, Alliance for Democracy (AD), this led to fingers being pointed at then Deputy Governor of Osun state, Iyiola Omisore as being responsible for the murder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter Former governor of Oyo State, and the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland,\u00a0 Senator Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, has\u00a0 threatened\u00a0 to drag the former Osun state governor\u00a0 , Chief Bisi Akande to court for defamation over the killing of Chief Bola Ige. Recall that Chief Bola Ige , a former Attorney\u00a0 General and Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[346,791,618,803,1039,1040],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-allegation","tag-assassination","tag-exonerate","tag-false","tag-murder","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}