Jail Olubadan-designate for contempt of court – Seriki

– Adebayo Oyediji said he’s the right person to become the new king

– March 4 has been fixed for High chief Adetunji’s coronation in Ibadan

– The media aide to the Olubadan-designate, Adeola Oloko,said he’s not aware of Oyediji’s move to compel the court to jail Adetunji

 

Oyediji warns Governor Ajimobi over Olubadan stool

File photo of next olubadan, Chief Saliu Adetunji, Olubadan of Ibadan

Ahead of the scheduled coronation of High Chief Saliu Adetunji as new Olubadan of Ibadan, the head of Seriki clan in Ibadan, Chief Adebayo Oyediji, has approached the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, praying the court to charge the Olubadan-designate, High Chief Saliu Adetunji, with contempt of court and committed to prison if installed as the next Olubadan.

March 4 has been fixed for High chief Adetunji’s coronation in Ibadan.

Oyediji, in is new suit said the olubadan-in-council is isobeying the 2008 ruling of Justice M.O. Ishola, which granted an interlocutory injunction, restraining the State Governor, the Attorney General, the late Oba Odugade and six other High Chiefs from appointing any of them to the stool of Olubadan, pending the determination of the originating summons.

He also said the Seriki line had been robbed of the right it was entitled to in the Olubadan succession system and when he began the royal ascension in the Seriki line in 1976, the current Olubadan-designate was five steps behind him.

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“When I signed on behalf of the Seriki line for the ascendancy arrangement, the only chief among us that was still alive until the recent court matter was Oba Odulana. Now that he had joined his ancestors, I am the only living chief with the right to be installed the Olubadan of Ibadanland.

“All the elevations that were made since the injunction, including that of Adetunji, who has presented himself to the purported kingmakers of the Olubadan of Ibadan chieftaincy and the Governor of Oyo State, for appointment as the Olubadan of Ibadan, are illegal,” he said.

But the media aide to the Olubadan-designate, Adeola Oloko,said he’s not aware of Oyediji’s move to compel the court to jail Adetunji, stressing that the Olubadan-designate would react at the appropriate time.

Prominent scholars and personalities have called for a review of the Ibadan chieftaincy tradition system in order to attract younger, educated and vibrant men to ascend the throne of the Olubadan.
Western Post reported that they made this call at a symposium organized by the Oyo state government as part of activities for the burial ceremony of the late Olubadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade I, at the Trenchand Hall of the University of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state.

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