Alaafin wants Akala jailed

[Davo]

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.

Source: Daily Sun