The Oyo state government has filed an appeal challenging the court ruling that invalidated the selection and installation of Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye as the Soun Ogbomoso
Additionally, an application for a stay of execution pending the hearing and determination of the appeal by Defendants/Applicants against the judgment at the Court of Appeal in the Ibadan Judicial Division has been filed at the High Court.
The application is also seeking an order from the court to restrain the Claimant/Respondent, either by himself or through his servants, agents, privies, or otherwise, from taking any further steps in recognition or in pursuance of the judgment of the Honourable Court. This judgment was delivered on October 25, 2023, in Suit No: HOG/27/2022, BETWEEN: PRINCE MUHAMMED KABIR OLAOYE V. EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF OYO STATE & 11 ORS.
Justice K.A. Adedokun, in his judgment on October 25, in the suit HOG/27/2023 between Prince Muhammed Kabir Olaoye and the Governor of Oyo State and 11 others, declared 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.
The same judge, in a suit HOG/20/2023 brought by Prince Taofeeq Akorede Olaoye, which challenged Oba Olaoye, and where judgment was delivered on October 3, ruled that the procedure was “right, valid, and proper.”
Dissatisfied with the judgment, an appeal was filed by Akin Onigbinde SAN and Co in Ibadan on behalf of the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Oluseyi Makinde, the Attorney General, and the Honorable Commissioner of Justice, Oyo State, and the Honorable Commissioner of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters.
The notice of appeal, dated October 27, seeks an order to set aside the judgment of the Trial Court on October 25 or an order for a re-trial before another judge of the Oyo State High Court.
The six grounds of appeal point out how the Trial Judge erred in his submission and how the judgment of October 25, 2023, goes against the weight of evidence before the Honourable Court.
The respondents include Prince Mohammed Kabir Olaoye, 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.
