Alaafin wants Akala jailed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SOURCE::::: SUN NEWSPAPER



The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111, has asked an Oyo State High Court to commit the out-going Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ladi Abdulsalam, and Mr Ganiyu Ajiboye, a purported traditional chief in Oyo town to prison for severally flouting the orders of two courts, directing the non-recognition of the latter as the Alago-Oja of Ago-Oja, Oyo.

Governor Alao-Akala had in 2006 installed Ajiboye as Alago of Ago-Oja, in the Atiba Local Government area, which is the Alaafin’s domain, an action, which was nullified by a state high court, following a legal challenge by the Alaafin and subsequently upheld by the court of Appeal. Justice O.A. Akinola of the high court in his ruling of February 29, 2007 declared that “the creation, appointment and installation of Baale Ago Oja was illegal, null and void, unconstitutional” and ordered Ajiboye to stop parading himself as such and vacate the official residence.

Justice J. A Fabiyi-led Court of Appeal in a ruling delivered on April 30, 2008, had upheld the order
But, the three defendants in the suit were said to have ignored the court verdicts and kept on recognizing Ajiboye as the Alago. This prompted the new action by the Oyo monarch, who is also the Chairman of the state Council of Obas and Chiefs. He has prayed the court through his counsel, Mr Adeola Omotunde, for the committal of the three defendants for contempt of court, following their alleged refusal to comply with the rulings of the law courts.

Aside this, the order became imperative, according to the lawyer, when it became apparent that the defendants were not making themselves available to receive the court notice. Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of the state High Court, Ibadan, had on Wednesday, last week, granted an order for substituted service of the Form 48 and other legal processes relating to the matter on the respondents.

In the order, the court granted Alaafin’s request to either paste or drop the form within the premises of the Government House, Ibadan for the out-going governor; premises of the Ministry of Justice, Ibadan for the Attorney General; and the official residence of Ajiboye.

In his judgment, Justice Akinola had declared the title of Baale Ago-Oja as “non-existent, illegal, unconstitutional, null and void”, adding that the certificate of office issued him was a ‘“worthless piece of paper’”. Similarly, the Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan , Oyo state capital, comprising Justice J. A Fabiyi, Justice I. Thomas, and Justice C.N Uwa had ruled that the order made by Justice Akinola, pronouncing the installation of Ajiboye as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect, was still subsisting.