A group of Oyo indigenes, Situ Adejare Tella, Toogin Muniru, and Afolabi Stephen Adebayo have dragged the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade and Governor Seyi to the High Court of Justice in Oyo State.
The group, in a suit filed on behalf of the OnaAka Alaafin, Agunpopo Royal Family of Ona-Aka Compound, Agunpopo,
Atiba local government also namedthe Commissioner for Justice, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and Alhaji Oyedokun Sulaiman, as defendants in the case.
In the suit, they urged the court to restrain “the Defendants jointly and severally by themselves, their Agents, Servants, Privies, Officers or any person howsoever described from installing, recognizing and dealing with whosoever as the Ona Aka Alaafin and/or in any manner authorizing, aiding,
abetting, performing and or executing any ceremony for the purposes of installing any person whosoever as the Ona Aka Alaafin.”
They also prayed that the court issues an order of interim injunction restraining Ojedokun “by himself his agents servants, heirs, privies and any person howsoever described presents, offerings, accepting
himself for the purpose of any coronation, installation and or conferment as the Ona Aka Alaafin.”
They argued that the the Alaafin cannot install Ojedokun or anyone from the Ona-Aka Alalubosa as OnaAka Alaafin because it’s “in contradiction and contravention of the Chiefs
Law of Oyo State with particular references to the Local Government Law Cap 66.”
