WE CONDEMN THE GRUESOME MURDER OF DIPO DINA

The gruesome murder of Otunba Dipo Dina, the Ogun State Action Congress candidate in the 2007 gubernatorial election is another shocking revelation that evil has taken over the reigns of Nigeria.

Otunba Dipo Dina was a progressive shinning light in Ogun State and Nigeria, he had moved the face of our politics away from do or die tendencies to issue based. He ran a political race with the people as the template. We therefore wonder why such an ebullient young leader would be felled by the bullets of mindless murderers who had lately turned Ogun State into an anomalous State.

The murder of Otunba Dina is in the hue of previous political murders in Nigeria that had seen to the untimely and horrific dispatch of political and community stars into the grave.

We empathize with the progressive family which has lost yet another feather on its cap and we equally sympathise with Otunba Dina’s family to bear this irreparable loss with unqualified equanimity.

We hope this would not go unresolved as usual. The perpetrators of this satanic act must be fished out and its investigation and prosecution should not become a hollow ritual like the cruel murder of late Chief Bola Ige.

The heinous murder of Otunba Dipo Dina showed us as a failed State where everyone is to himself and where criminals exercise the power of life and death over citizens.

We implore the security agents to burrow into an immediate and purposeful investigation of this crude and ungodly murder so that Nigerians would know that the government keeps its constitutional pact to protect the lives and properties of her citizens.

We commiserate with the people of Ogun State who had been denied a progressive voice and a future with an avowed welfarist who was desirous to lift their lives above the current squalor.

Otunba Dina’s death would be a great disappointment to the reactionary elements who had thought it would extinguish the burning fire of change in Ogun State and Nigeria.

As Otunba Dina struggled to death, victory is certain in his sweet memory.