Justice C. C Ogunsanya of the Ogun State High Court, Sagamu Judicial Division, has dismissed the claims filed by Prince Oluwayomi Ademola Adeyiga, asking the court to declare that the nomination, selection and appointment of Oba Adeyinka Onakade as the Alakenne of Ikenne as illegal, null and void.
The court in its judgment which was earlier scheduled to be delivered on April 9, 2020, but was shifted due to the COVID-19 lockdown and was delivered on June 3, further set aside the purported nomination and selection of Adeyiga by the Obara Ruling House as the Alakenne of Ikenne Elect on February 2018.
Justice Ogunsanya further gave a declaration that the stool of the Alakenne of Ikenne was filled on May 25, 2011, when the executive council of Ogun State approved the nomination and selection of Oba Adeyinka Onakade as the Alakenne of Ikenne.
In addition, the court granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the claimant, Prince Oluyomi Ademola Odeneye-Adeyiga from parading himself as the Alakenne of Ikenne.
Prince Adeyiga had filed a suit delineated HCS/62/2018 before the Ogun State High Court 2 sitting at Sagamu against Oba Mosudi Adeyinka Onakade and two others; the Governor of Ogun State and the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, asking the court to declare that the Alakenne of Ikenne Chieftaincy Declaration Edict 1998 regulating the appointment of the Alakenne of Ikenne Chieftyaincy approved on July 15, 1998, and registered on July 17, 1988 is the only valid declaration for the Alakenne Chieftaincy.
He also asked for a declaration of the court that the selection and appointment of Oba Onakade as the Alakenne of Ikenne is contrary to the provisions of the Alakenne of Ikenne Chieftaincy Declaration Edict 1998 and is illegal, null and void as well as an order setting aside his nomination, selection and appointment.
Further, he asked the court to order Oba Onakade from parading himself as the Alakenne of Ikenne and to declare him as the Alakenne of Ikenne having been duly nominated by the Obara Ruling House and presented to the kingmakers in accordance with the Alakenne of Ikenne Chieftaincy Declaration Edict 1998 especially since he had performed the necessary traditional rites expected of an Oba before ascending the throne.
He also asked for an order mandating the state government to recognise him and immediately set in motion the process of installing him and presenting to him the staff of office as the Alakenne of Ikenne Chieftaincy Declaration Edict 1998 and the sum of N15 million or any such sum that the court may adjudge as the cost incurred by Oba Onakade including his own solicitor’s fees in prosecuting the case.
In the course of the trial, Prince Adeyiga called four witnesses while Oba Onakade called three witnesses and while the Governor of Ogun State and the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy affairs both called only a witness.
In arriving at the decision, the court held that there was no vacancy in the stool of the Alakenne of Ikenne Chieftaincy in 2018 and even if there was vacancy, it was not for Prince Adeyiga and his family to proceed on their own volition to meet and nominate candidates and kingmakers to select the claimant without the Secretary of the Ikenne Local Government who would have been the proper person if need be in 2018 to set in motion any nomination and selection process to the stool.
The court said it was taken aback by the presence of several lapses in the process which Prince Adeyiga claims produced him as the person entitled to the stool of the Alakenne of Ikenne as revealed in his pleadings before the court, adding that he put the cart before the horse. Justice Ogunddanya dismissed the claims of Prince Adeyiga and allowed part of Oba Onakade’s counterclaim to hold by restraining Prince Adeyiga from parading himself as the Alakenne of Ikenne elect.
In his reaction to the judgment, the Alakenne of Ikenne, Oba Adeyinka Onakade stated that he gives glory to God that the case was resolved and described the judgment given by Justice C.C Ogunsanya in the case filed against him and the state government as a landmark as it dismissed the claims against him and upheld that he is the Alakenne of Ikenne.
“Consequence upon the laudable judgment, I, Alayeluwe Oba Adeyinka Onakade, Moruwafu 1, Alakenne of Ikenne, wholeheartedly extend my hand of fellowship to all the good people of Ikenne because I believe that there is neither victor nor vanquished in this contest. I am humbly appealing to everybody to let us embrace, love, peace and cooperation to move Ikenne forward, God help us,” Oba Onakade said.
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