LAGOS State High Court sitting in Igboesere yesterday
dethroned Oba Micheal Gbadebo Onakoya the Orijeru of Igboye in Epe Local
Government Area from office and gave a restraining order that he should
henceforth stop parading as the ruler and specifically as Orijeru of Igboyeland
of Epe Local Government.
Justice Iyabo Kasali who gave the order on Wednesday while
delivering judgment in a suit filed by representatives of Ewade Ruling House
challenging the nomination and crowning of the monarch declared the actions as
illegal and of no effect adding that the documents used in the said nomination
were fraudulent.
The trial judge also declared that the monarch who was
the second defendant is not a member of the Ewade Ruling House of Igboye and
therefore not entitled to be nominated to the stool of the Orijeru of Igboye.
Consequently, the court granted an order of perpetual
injunction restraining the second defendant from parading himself as a member
of Ewade Ruling House of the said Igboye or presenting himself for the stool of
Orijeru of Igboye on the platform of Ewade Ruling House.
The judge also gave an order of perpetual injunction
restraining all the other defendants from recognising the second defendant as a
member of Ewade Ruling House of Igboye.
The claimants in the suit are Alhaji M A Quadri, Chief
Dauda Kadiri and Mrs Oladipe Otunowo for themselves and as representatives of
Osekelu branch of Ewade Ruling House.
Others are Chief Gbenro Otunowo, Mr Yemisi Adegboyega and
Mrs Adeleke Ogunnubi, for themselves and as representatives of
Okuyemi/Okuboyejo branch of Ewade Ruling House.
The defendants, alongside from the monarch,
are Head of the Ewade Ruling House, Otunba Abdulwasiu Musa-Adebamowo, Lagos
State government and Attorney General of Lagos State
Justice Kasali dismissed the 35 point
averment of the second defendant contained in his amended statement of defence
and counter claims filed through his counsel, Babatunde Oshilaja.
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