Posted by By Ise-Oluwa Ige on
PROMINENT citizen of Ondo State have approached the Supreme Court seeking to void the appointment of Prince Adebanjo Mafimisebi as the Olugbo of Ugboland.
ABUJA-PROMINENT citizen of Ondo State have approached the Supreme Court seeking to void the appointment of Prince Adebanjo Mafimisebi as the Olugbo of Ugboland.
The indigenes are also praying the court to stop the Ondo State governor, Chief Olusegun Agagu from appointing him (Prince Adebanjo Mafimisebi) as the Chairman of the Ondo State Traditional Council.
Some of the indigenes pushing for Mafimishebi's dethronement are Prince Macaulay Ehuwa, Prince Ethiopia Eyiwumi Okiki, Prince Ephraim Omotoye and Albert Ebigbemi.
All of them who are indigenes of Ugbo in Ilaje, Ese Odo of Ondo State said they are interested in who occupies the throne of Olugbo in Ugboland.
In a motion on notice filed at the Supreme Court on Monday by the Chambers of Chief Afe Babalola SAN, on their behalf, they are specifically praying the apex court to compel the government of Ondo State to stop recognising Mafimisebi as the Olugbo of Ugboland.
They also sought an order of interlocutory injunction to stop Mafimisebi from parading himself as Olugbo of Ugboland and from receiving salaries, emoluments and compensation associated with the throne of Olugbo pending the determination of an appeal pending before the apex court.
They have also caused their lawyers to write a letter to the executive governor of Ondo State, Chief Olusegun Agagu asking him to shelve his plans to appoint Mafimisebi as the chairman of the state traditional council.
In the letter signed by Mr. Seeni Okunloye SAN, on behalf of his boss, Chief Afe Babalola, Agagu was told that to appoint Mafimisebi as the Chairman of the Ondo State Traditional Council would amount to an affront to the authority of the Supreme Court and contempt of the court.
The letter reads, "As Chief Executive of Ondo State, Your Excellency is expected to obey the rule of law and not to act in any manner to prejudice the hearing of a case which is pending before any court of law particularly when that court is the Supreme Court, the highest court of law in the country.
"Accordingly, in the present circumstances, Your Excellency cannot and should refrain from appointing and or swearing-in Prince Adebanjo Maifimisebi as the Chairman of Ondo State Traditional Council or in any other manner according recognition and responsibilities to him as the Olugbo of Ugboland.