One of many contestants to the throne of Alaafin of Oyo, Prince Lukman Gbadegesin, has approached a courtroom of legislation to problem the appointment and presentation of the workers of workplace to Prince Akeem Owoade as the brand new and forty sixth Alaafin of Oyo by Governor Seyi Makinde.
Gbadegesin, who nearly all of Oyo’s Kingmakers (Oyomesi) designated as the subsequent Alaafin, is interesting that the courtroom put aside the appointment, approval of appointment and presentation of workers of workplace to Oba Owoade carried out by the Oyo State governor.
In a pre-action discover, signed by his authorized consultant, Adekunle Sobaloju, SAN, a replica of which was addressed to the governor, he insisted that the Governor Makinde’s actions run foul of the Oyo State Chiefs’ Regulation 2000.
“By asserting a unique candidate, the Governor has usurped the powers of the Oyomesi, violating the Alaafin Chieftaincy Declaration of 1961, which makes the Oyomesi the only authority for the choice of the Alaafin.
“The Governor’s alleged reliance on Ifa session contradicts the judgement of the Oyo State Excessive Courtroom of nineteenth December 2022, which declared Ifa session within the choice course of illegal, as It Just isn’t offered for within the Alaafin Chieftaincy Declaration of 1961, and the allegations of bribery by two Oyomesi members, raised over a yr after the choice, lack credibility and weren’t formally communicated to the Governor or investigated,” the letter learn.
The lawyer famous that Gbadegesin was looking for “an order setting apart the purported appointment, approval of appointment and presentation of workers of workplace to Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade as Alaafin of Oyo because it was performed in violation of the provisions of the Chief’s Regulation of Oyo State, 2000, the Registered Alaafin Chieftaincy Declaration of 1961, illegal, unconstitutional, invalid, null and void” and a declaration that he “was validly chosen and or appointed by the Kingmakers of Alaafin of Oyo because the candidate to fill the vacant stool of the Alaafin of Oyo in accordance with Chiefs Regulation of Oyo State, 2000 and the Registered Alaafin Chieftaincy Declaration of 1961 and due to this fact his appointment is legitimate, lawful and correct.”
