Christy Akingboye, widow of the late Ondo State SDP governorship candidate, Bamidele Akingboye, has demanded the immediate release of her husband’s autopsy report by the appropriate authorities insisting that the family cannot continue to rely on speculation, contradictions and unverified claims.
Addressing journalists in Lagos, she said it was troubling that neither she nor her children had been given access to the autopsy findings, even as a blogger publicly claimed to have read the report online and alleged it confirmed murder.
She questioned how a private individual could boast of accessing a document that the police have refused to release to the family.
“When my children and I met with the Commissioner of Police last month, he told us he had the report — yet he didn’t show it to us,” she said. “Instead, he said he was washing his hands off the case and returning it to Panti, a division where we had earlier faced bias, for onward transmission to the DPP.”
She said the situation became more confusing that same day.
“The CP went on Channels TV claiming the autopsy confirmed murder. Meanwhile, we, the immediate family, have not seen a single page. Nobody has shown us anything.”
Mrs. Akingboye accused blogger Jimmy Adekanle of working with her step-son to use an unverified and questionable document to smear her and destabilise the family.
She stressed that an autopsy report alone does not establish murder until tested in court.
“All I’m asking is simple and rightful: release the autopsy officially. As his widow, I deserve to see it. If a blogger can allegedly access a document still in police custody, why is the family being shut out?” she asked.
She warned that circulating unverified claims was a deliberate attempt to mislead the public and damage her family’s reputation.
Lamenting the secrecy surrounding the investigation, she noted that the autopsy — which should ordinarily be in the hands of the police and next of kin — has been withheld from those most entitled to it.
She urged the authorities to release the report without delay and end the confusion, suspicion and emotional turmoil surrounding her husband’s death.
