Former Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, also known as Jalo, has dismissed allegations that he was involved in the assassination of former Minister of Justice, Bola Ige.
Speaking during an appearance on Edmund Obilo’s podcast, State Affairs, he disclosed that after the assassination of Bola Ige, he was apprehended and locked up in a dungeon cell.
He said his innocence led to his eventual discharge and acquittal by the courts after being made to pass through trauma.
Adesiyan, who was Minister during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, said God should destroy him and his family if he was involved in the assassination of Ige on December 23, 2001, in Ibadan, Oyo State.
He said: ‘I’m Jalo, and I fear nobody up till today, I pray to God, and each time I’m praying, I start by saying if I ever knew anything about the death of Uncle Bola or anybody for that matter, I will not come out of this alive.
“The theory was that when they removed his cap, he has been molested and killed spiritually, so they went and completed the thing physically in Ibadan, they are stupid and they will all suffer before we leave this earth.
“Anybody who has hands in the death of Uncle Bola that made people like me to suffer will suffer and those who still believe in that theory will suffer too.
“On December 2023, 2001, Bola Ige was assassinated and they arrested us and took us to Alagbon where we saw hell. We were locked up in a dungeon cell without light and I’m having problems with my eyes up till today because of that trauma.
“If I know anything about Uncle Bola’s death or if I have any inclination, plan or I was where they started murmuring it where I’m sitting, I pray to God to strike me, destroy my wife, destroy my children, destroy everything I stand for.”