Twelve kingmakers have asked the Osun State High Court to restrain the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi from replacing them.
The kingmakers had petitioned Governor Adegboyega Oyetola on September 9, 2020, urging him to dethrone the royal father over alleged misconduct.
A copy of the suit by the kingmakers filed by their counsel, John Enworo, obtained in Osogbo and dated September 25, 2020, was numbered HIW/M.18/2020.
In the motion ex-parte and 22 paragraphs affidavits deposed to by the Oosa of Iwoland, Chief Yekini Orobinmpe, they alleged that the Oluwo, having been aware of the petition written against him, dated September 9, 2020, has resolved to replace them with other persons, asking the court to intervene to protect their legal rights.
The suit was in pursuant to order 39 of the State High Court amended (civil procedure) rules and section (6) (6) (A&B) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended).
According to them: “That all the applicants are kingmakers in Oluwo of Iwoland Chieftaincy. And being kingmakers felt aggrieved by the gross misconduct of the respondent (Oluwo) and unanimously wrote a petition to the Governor of the State for the removal of the respondent.
“That by so doing, the applicants’ action is constitutional in all ramifications. That the court make an order of interim injunction restraining the respondent whether by himself, agents, servants and privies from removing the applicants from their positions as Oosa, Onto, Balogun, Jagun, Oloya, Olukotun, Odofin, Onju, Agoro, Asape, Olukosi and Aro chieftaincy and replacing them with new appointees pending the determination of the motion and substantive suit.”
The Nation
