Christy Akingboye, the widow of the late governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party in Ondo State, Bamidele Akingboye, has demanded the immediate release of her husband’s autopsy report.
She condemned what she described as “wicked, malicious and pre-emptive claims” surrounding the circumstances of his death.
Speaking with journalists in Lagos, Akingboye said it was disturbing that neither she nor her children had been shown the autopsy findings, even as a blogger publicly claimed to have seen the document and alleged it confirmed murder.
She questioned the integrity of the process, saying, “How can a private blogger claim access to a report that the police have not read to us as the immediate family?”
She expressed concern over contradictory actions by the authorities, particularly the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, who allegedly told the family during a meeting that he had the autopsy report, yet declined to share its contents.
“It’s strange that when my children and I had a meeting with the Commissioner of Police last month, he claimed he already had the report with him, yet he did not show it to us.
“Instead, he told us he was washing his hands off the case by returning it to Panti, a division where we had earlier experienced bias and hostility, for onward transmission to the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution,” she said.
The widow described what followed as “even more shocking.”
“The same CP went on Channels TV that very day to claim the autopsy confirmed murder. Meanwhile, we, the immediate family, have not seen a single page. Nobody has shown us anything,” she lamented.
She maintained that only a court of law can determine whether a death is murder, not just an autopsy report.
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