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OYOMESI REJECTS OWOADE AS ALAAFIN- DESIGNATE. (PHOTO).


 Oyomesi rejects Owoade as Alaafin-Designate


Kingmakers in ancient Oyo town (Oyomesi) have described appointment of Prince Abimbola Owoade as Alaafin-Designate by Governor Seyi Makinde as illegal and unlawful.

Oyo State Government announced Makindeā€™s approval of Owoade as Alaafin-Designate, two years after the stool became vacant.

However, five Kingmakers from the town have declared the appointment as null and void because they did not recommend such a name to the State Government, insisting that the only person they recommended as the next Alaafin is Prince Luqman Gbadegesin.

The Kingmakers in a letter to the Governor signed by their legal representative, Adekunle Sobaloju (SAN), include High Chief Yusuf AkĆ­nade, Bashorun of Oyo; High Chief Wakeel Akindele, Lagunna of Oyo; High Chief Hamzat Yusuf, Akinniku of Oyo; Chief Wahab Oyetunji, warrant chief stand-in for Asipa of Oyo, and Chief Gbadebo Mufutau, warrant chief stand-in for AlapinnĆ­ of Oyo.

The letter reads: ā€œYou will recall that on 30th September, 2022 at the meeting of the Kingmakers in accordance with the Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration, 1961, the Kingmakers appointed Prince Lukman Adelodun Gbadegesin as the Alaafin of Oyo by majority of the lawful votes of the Kingmakers.

ā€œPrince Lukman Adelodun Gbadegesin having obtained the majority of votes of the Kingmakers present and voting was deemed appointed and his name was forwarded to your Excellency as the candidate appointed by the Kingmakers as Alaafin of Oyo for your approval which you refused to approved for no disclosed reason at all. The Kingmakers thereafter filed an action to stop your excellency from truncating the process, culminating in the present appeal at the court of appeal.ā€

The chiefs noted that they were surprised that in the announcement by the government, it claimed that the selection was made after wide consultation and divination. 

They said: ā€œWe must emphatically state that the Alaafin is not chosen by consultation or divination but in strict compliance with the Registered Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration of 1967, which codifies the native law and custom governing the selection process for the vacant stool of the Alaafin.

ā€œUnder the Registered Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration of 1967, it is only the Bashorun of Oyo, the head of the Oyomesi and Kingmakers that can, summon a meeting of the Kingmakers for the purpose of selecting a candidate to fill the vacant stool of the Alaafin of Oyo.

ā€œIn this instance, the Bashorun did not summon any such meeting, nor was there any meeting convened in the Alaafinā€™s palace, as custom demands where the said Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade was selected or appointed as the new Alaafin.

ā€œAny meeting of few kingmakers and emergency warrant chiefs held at the Governorā€™s office on the gth of January,2025 or elsewhere at the instance of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, to select the preferred candidate of the Governor as the new Alaafin is not only contrary to the native law and custom and Chieftaincy Declaration of Alafin of Oyo Chieftaincy but unlawful, illegal, invalid, null and void.

ā€œIt is not the duty of the Governor to convene the meeting of few kingmakers and emergency warrant chiefs to select or appoint a new Alaafin on the 9th of January, 2025 and hurriedly approve the appointment on the 10th of January, 2025.ā€

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