Muti family's 2006 declaration, travesty of Justice, history

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The Dosunmu Royal Family has responded to a statement issued by the legal counsel to the Mufti family, Akeem Animashaun Esq., accusing the family of ‘selective honesty’.

Meanwhile, Animashaun had stated that, “for determination in the Supreme Court judgement cited by the Dosunmu branch were on the validity of a chieftaincy declaration made in 1981, adding that the Dosunmu branch “in their usual characteristics of selective honesty” deliberately refused to inform the public of the amendment of the Onikoyi Chieftaincy Declaration of 2006.”

Reacting to this, the Olori Ebi of the Dosunmu house affirmed that indeed there was an Onikoyi Chieftaincy Declaration of 2006, which broke down the ruling houses into 10, but added that the declaration was fraudulently and unilaterally procured without involvement of the Dosunmu House.

“Being the incumbent ruling house, the Muti family is trying to rewrite history which is well known to all elders and sons of Isale Eko. They succeeded in deceiving the government of the day by not taking into account the Supreme Court ruling which emphatically ruled that there are two ruling houses, and that succession to the throne should be on rotational basis.

“What the Muti family did was a travesty of Justice and history. Being the incumbent ruling house, all their efforts were to keep themselves in power permanently. Imagine, out of the 10 so-called ruling houses, 9 of them are sub branches of the Muti family, while the 10th one is reserved for the Dosunmu House. More interestingly, the rotation by their arrangement puts Dosunmu as the last house to rule,

“In law as we understand, once a Supreme Court has ruled on a case, it is final. But the Mutis were so adept in their trickery game that they surreptitiously hid the facts of the matter from the government of the day.”

According to the Muti’s legal representative, citing several cases, the Dosunmu House has challenged the Declaration of 2006 both in the High Court and Appeal Court and lost. However, to the Olori Ebi of Dosunmu House, it was all travesty of Justice.

“It was a mockery of our history, culture and our very existence. How could you want to change history made by our ancestors? Our progenitor, Onikoyi Adeyemi, a direct descendant of Jegbeade Onikoyi, the first Oba Onikoyi of Ikoyi Ile founded Ikoyi and Imoba lands. He had 3 children, namely; Ogabi, Fajobi and Igbodi. While Ogabi had Muti, Fajobi begat Dosunmu and Igbodi died childless. After Adeyemi, Muti succeeded him as Chief Onikoyi of Lagos. Next was Dosunmu who reigned from 1860 to 1891.

“Coming to recent times, the Onikoyi of Ikoyi before Oba Ibikunle Fafunwa-Onikoyi was Adamo Fagbemi Dosunmu Onikoyi from Dosunmu branch. How could you want to rub off this beautiful lineage of ours because of greed. Of course, they have had their days in court but then every dog has its day. The matter is in the Supreme Court and I strongly believe we will be victorious, Insha Allah,” the Olori Ebi concluded.

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