A faction of the Oyo the town kingmakers, referred to as the Oyo Mesi, have kicked towards any plan by means of the Oyo Atmosphere Executive to start a new procedure to make a choice the Alaafin of Oyo.
Suggest for the kingmakers, Kunle Sobaloju (SAN), wrote the Oyo Atmosphere Governor, Seyi Makinde, ultimatum towards restarting the method to make a choice a pristine Alaafin of Oyo.
The kingmakers, via Sobaloju, had been reacting to a media document suggesting the proceed to abjure the method concluded to begin with by means of the kingmakers
He steered the governor to not do anything else that might prejudice pending appeals in courts.
Following the demise of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on April 22, 2022, there was once a emergency because the Oyomesi preoccupied the Oyo Atmosphere govt in a criminal combat over the number of the pristine monarch.
Later a nomination procedure by means of the legitimate ruling space, the kingmakers met, screened the 82 contestants and selected Prince Lukman Gbadegesin, whose title was once forwarded to the Oyo Atmosphere govt for ratification.
Following opposition to the collection of Gbadegesin by means of 3 of the kingmakers, the Oyo Atmosphere govt ordered a repeat of the workout.
The vast majority of kingmakers, led by means of the Bashorun of Oyo, Prime Well-known Yusuf Ayoola, alternatively, took the federal government to court docket.
The Ibadan-based attorney representing the Oyomesi in court docket, in his letter to Makinde, said, “We wish to restate that in view of the pending appeals in Appeal No: CA/IB/134/24 High Chief Yusuf Akinade Ayoola Layinka & Ors v. Governor of Oyo State & Ors and the pending application for interlocutory orders of injunction restraining Your Excellency, servants, agents, assigns, and or privies or otherwise and howsoever from aborting the process for the selection/appointment of the candidate for filling the vacant stool of Alaafin of Oyo, duly conducted by the kingmakers of Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy and or removing the appellants/applicants as the kingmakers of the Oyo Alaafin or dissolving the Oyomesi in Council and or appointing or selecting warrant chiefs to conduct or start a fresh process or exercise for the filling of the vacant stool of Alaafin of Oyo, pending the determination of the appeal against the ruling of Justice Akintola of High Court of Oyo, delivered on 16th ofApril 2024, it would be subjudice for Your Excellency to take any step that may render the decisions of the Court of Appeal nugatory.”
He mentioned if the governor proceeded to start the new procedure to fill the vacant stool of the Alaafin of Oyo, such motion “would be sub judice and tantamount to lawlessness and disregard of the superior courts of record, an act which Your Excellency ought to distance yourself from.”
He mentioned the Ideally suited Court docket, the best court docket within the land, had at diverse occasions frowned on events earlier than the court docket enticing in self-help.
“Explicit reference is made to the verdict of the Ideally suited Court docket on the subject of Ajuwon & Ors v. Governor of Oyo Atmosphere & Ors. (2021) LPELR-55339(SC), the place the Ideally suited Court docket states ‘…it’s unthinkable for a democratically elected governor to embark on unwholesome and undemocratic dispositions.
“We, therefore, once more request and urge Your Excellency to suspend any plan to kick-start a fresh process for the filling of the vacant stool of Alaafin of Oyo during the pendency of a motion for injunction pending appeal, in obedience to the law and integrity of our courts,” the letter added.