BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) – The Seriki family has filed a suit seeking to restrain the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, the Attorney General of the state and the Olubadan-in-Council from installing Chief Saliu Adetunji, as the next monarch in Ibadan.
The family filed the suit, numbered 1/149/16, though their counsel, Abideen Adeniran, before an Oyo State High Court and is laying claim to the Olubadan of Ibadan throne.
The claimants, Chief Adebayo Oyediji, Chief Olalekan Fakunle, Chief Rasidi Abinupagun, and Chief Gabriel Kofoworola, acting for the Seriki family, prayed that the defendants must not enthrone anyone as the Olubadan pending the hearing and final determination of the suit.
“If this interim order of injunction is not made before the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction, the respondents would fill the vacancy in the Olubadan of Ibadan chieftaincy immediately on the 12th of February, 2016 and present this honourable court with a fait accompli,” they said in a 38-paragraph affidavit.
“There is real urgency in this case because the ‘res’ to be preserved is the Olubadan of Ibadan Chieftaincy and the respondents have concluded their plans to install the defendant as the next Olubadan of Ibadan in spite of the pendency of the order of interlocutory injunction and in spite of this suit and the claimant learnt of this plan only on February 1, 2016.
“If this situation should be allowed to occur, the applicants would suffer irreparable harm and injury as an irretrievable damage would have been done to them as the appointment of the third defendant (Chief Adetunji) as the next Olubadan would be irreversible and this would be a very grave injustice to the applicants, who had already obtained an order of the High Court against the defendants to restrain them from filling the vacancy in the Olubadan of Ibadan Chieftaincy.”
The claims was supported by exhibits A and B, which were the certified true copy of the judgment obtained by the applicants against the Olubadan of Ibadan and others in suit No: I/313/88 and a copy of the enrolment orders of injunction made by the High Court in suit no:I/421/07.
Story by David Oputah
