The Ondo State Excessive Court sitting in Ore, the headquarters of Odigbo Native Authorities Space of the state, has restrained Excessive Chief Akindele Aladenika from parading himself as regent of Ore group within the native authorities space.
In a ruling delivered by Justice Ade Adegoroye, a duplicate of which was made accessible to our correspondent on Sunday, the courtroom additionally barred the state authorities and its companies from recognising Aladenika as regent of the group till a substantive go well with on the stool was decided.
The stool of the group turned vacant following the demise of the Olore of Ore, Oba Johnson Olatomide, who handed away in 2020.
The federal government was stated to have accredited the appointment of Aladenika because the regent, however the choice was greeted with rejection by the Olore-in-Council, who requested the federal government to nominate a substantive monarch, and never a regent for the group.
It was alleged that Aladenika had been parading himself as the standard ruler of the group, allegedly with the assist of the state authorities.
However 4 members of the Olore-in-Council, Excessive Chief Monday Sawoju, Excessive Chief Mrs Esther, Chief Tope Ijiniga and Chief Fakeye Sawoju, approached the courtroom, searching for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the state authorities and the safety companies from recognising Aladenika as a regent of Ore group.
Defendants within the go well with are the state governor, the Commissioner for Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs, the Lawyer Normal and Commissioner for Justice, the Chairman of Odigbo Native Authorities and one David Ijiniga.
The plaintiffs additionally prayed the courtroom to put aside the nomination, approval and the paperwork and actions that led to the appointment of Aladenika, pending the willpower of an analogous case in courtroom.
The courtroom held that there was a subsisting injunction on the earlier regency of the group which had not been decided, saying the set up of one other regent whereas the matter remained pending in courtroom may quantity to contempt and undermine the judicial course of.
Within the ruling, Justice Adegoroye stated, “The place of this case is a little more precarious. The matter is sub judice, and the bone of competition is the regency of Ore.
“There’s a subsisting injunction in opposition to the erstwhile regent, who sadly has joined his ancestors. It’s an affront in opposition to the courtroom for an additional particular person to be put in in defiance of the injunction, for no matter it’s price, and the truth that the case remains to be pending earlier than the courtroom. Tinkering with a matter that’s sub judice may quantity to contempt of courtroom.
“In sum, I maintain that this software succeeds partly. The primary to fourth defendants/respondents and all legislation enforcement companies are hereby restrained from additional recognising Excessive Chief Akindele Aladenika because the Regent of Ore pending the ultimate willpower of the substantive go well with.
“The stated Excessive Chief Akindele Aladenika can be restrained from additional parading himself because the Regent of Ore pending the ultimate willpower of the substantive go well with.”
