•Challenges his dethronement The sacked Oloffa of Offa, Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye, yesterday approached the Supreme Court to challenge Tuesday's judgement of the Federal Court of Appeal which dethroned him.
In the notice filed by his counsel, Lawal Rabana & Co and made available to the National Mirror in Ilorin, Esuwoye and his Anilelerin Ruling House are asking that one the kingmakers of Offa, Prince Adegboyega Keji, who was asked to be installed king by the Appeal Court; the Kwara State Attorney- General and the governor should be refrained from executing the Appeal Court judgement.
Esuwoye is seeking the following reliefs from the Supreme Court: an order setting aside the judgement of the Ilorin Division the Court of Appeal delivered on July 9, 2013 which nullified his selection, appointment and installation as the Oloffa of Offa and an order to allow his appeal as well as any further order or orders that the apex court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.
He claimed in his appeal that the Appeal Court erred in its judgment "when it held that the ascendancy to stool of Oloffa of Offa is rotational between the Anilelerin and Olugbense ruling houses by expunging exhibits G, O, P, Q, R and S before it.
Esuwoye also claimed that the court erred by expunging exhibits J and DFC2 which are the government positions to the nomination, selection and appointment of an Oloffa which the respondents did not oppose thereby occasioning a miscarriage of justice.
He added that the Appeal Court erred when it held that a purported "curse" on the males of Olugbense Ruling House by their progenitors prevented them from ascending the throne of Oloffa of Offa "is unfair and repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience when same was not the case put forward by the claimants."
No date has been fixed for hearing of the appeal.
National Mirror