Who Killed Cicero?
(article) The eminent Roman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, was a statesman, philosopher and orator, who lived his full life from 106-43 B.C. He was an inspiration to his time. In like manner, though not perfect, was Bola Ige: a classicist, speechifier, Governor, Statesman, Federal Attorney General of the most populous nation in Africa, awaiting another opportunity to represent Africa (via Nigeria) on an august United Nations assignment. He was – as his enemies must admit, whatever was his apparently odious and intransigent position that may have led to his brutal liquidation – a prominent Nigerian, indeed, African. How much more could one have been, as a government functionary and public figure in one’s own country? How much higher could one have climbed to be so perfunctorily mowed down by assassins? Whoever killed our “Cicero,” for whatever reason, also decimated the soul and spirit of the nation. One of the trusted foundation stones of our emerging nationhood has been wrenched from our com
