Crisis may be brewing over the presentation of staff of office to the new Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba Sefiu Olawale Oyebola, on Thursday, as Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, has been urged to halt it because of a suit with no HOI/04/2023 pending before the state High Court, sitting in Iseyin, over the contest for the stool.
A legal practitioner, Mr. A.G. Adeniran, who is counsel to Prince Abdulganiyu Oladeni Bolanle and other members of the Ogbolu royal family, in a statement made available to journalists, called on the state government to stay action in the interest of justice, peace and good governance.
He said parties in the suit are Prince Bolanle and Others as claimants while the defendants are Governor Makinde; Attorney General of Oyo State, Mogaji Amusa Ariori, the head of the Akande, Olugbile and Majaro ruling houses and Ikolaba of Iseyin, a representative of the kingmakers.
According to him, whenever an injunction has been applied for and the same is pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, it is apposite for all concerned not to do anything that will affect the subject matter of the injunction until the motion for injunction has been heard and determined by the High Court even if no order of injunction has been made.
Adeniran disclosed that the Supreme Court affirmed this in its judgement in the suit between Governor of Lagos State and Emeka Odumegu Ojukwu, noting that whoever takes an action after a defendant has been notified of the pendency of a suit seeking an injunction against him even without temporary injunction acts at his peril.
He maintained that it is imperative for Governor Makinde not to go ahead with the presentation of staff of office to the Aseyin until the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction pending before the Iseyin High Court has been heard and determined, stating that a copy of the motion on notice has been served on him and other defendants.
He added that as the father of all Governor Makinde must hold the balance evenly between his clients and the defendants in filling the stool of Aseyin of Iseyin when motion for injunction by his clients is still pending before the High Court.
The legal practitioner explained that in the suit his clients are claiming among others a declaration that under the native law and custom of Yoruba land, and of Iseyin in particular, it is the descendants of the founder of the town that are entitled to produce the traditional ruler of that town, it is the family of the claimants who are the descendants of Ogbolu, the founder of Iseyin and whose family produced the 1st to 11th Aseyins of Iseyin who are entitled to produce Aseyins of Iseyin
Others include an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from nominating, selecting, appointing or approving the appointment of anyone who is not from the family of the claimants as the next Aseyin of Iseyin and an order setting aside any purported nomination, selection, appointment or approval of appointment or any other step that has been taking by any of the defendants to appoint anyone who is not from the family of the claimants as the next Aseyin of Iseyin.
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