Oba Ghandi Olaoye vs Prince Kabiru Olaoye: Appeal Court set to deliver judgement
Khalid ABRAHAM
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The Court of Appeal, Ibadan Judicial Division, is set to deliver judgement today Tuesday February 18, 2025, on the appeal filed by the Oyo state government and Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye challenging a court ruling which invalidated the selection and installation of the latter as the Soun of Ogbomosoland.
The legal tussle, suit No: HOG/27/2022, which was initiated in the third quarter of 2023 is expected to end with the judgement today.
Honourable Justice K. A. Adedokun delivered judgment on the matter on the 25th day of October, 2023, at the High Court in Ogbomoso.
Justice Adedokun in his judgment between Prince Muhammed Kabir Olaoye Vs The Governor of Oyo State and 11 others, asserted that the procedure for the nomination of the Soun of Ogbomoso the 12th defendant was “irregular, null and void’’ for not strictly complying with the provisions of the Soun Chieftaincy Declaration of 1958.
Though in a similar case, HOG/20/2023, the same judge, Adedokun, instituted by Prince Taofeeq Akorede Olaoye, also challenging Oba Olaoye’s nomination in which judgment was delivered on October 3, ruled that the procedure was “right, valid and proper.”
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The appeal, filed on October 27, 2023, by Akin Onigbinde SAN and Co in Ibadan on behalf of the Executive Governor of Oyo state, Engineer Oluseyi Makinde, Attorney General and Hon Commissioner of Justice, Oyo state and Hon. Commissioner Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matter, seeks for an order setting aside the judgment of the trial court of 25th October or an order of re-trial before another judge of the Oyo State High Court.
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The six grounds of appeal pointed out how the trial judge erred in his submission and how the judgment of 25th October, 2023, is against the weight of evidence before the Honourable Court.
The respondents include, Oladapo Atanda, Esq of Dapo Atanda’s Chambers, Ogbomoso North Local Government, Kinnira, Ogbomoso, the Traditional Council of Ogbomoso North, Kinnira, Ogbomoso, S. A. Mohammed, Esq., Mohammed & Mohammed & Co. Mobolaji Chambers, Kola Fatoye, Esq, Chief Samuel Otolorin JP, Chief Salawu Ajadi, Chief Tijani Abioye Chief David Adeniran Ojo, Pastor Afolabi Ghandi Oladunni Olaoye and others.
