An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso has restrained the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice; and Commissioner of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters from installing Pastor Afolabi Ghandi Oladunni Olaoye as the new Soun of Ogbomosoland.
The court said none of the Oyo State Government officials either by themselves, agents or officials should do so.
However, the order will only subsist pending the hearing and final determination of the mandatory injunction already filed before the court by one of the contenders for the Soun of Ogbomoso stool, Prince Muhammed Kabir Olaoye.
Justice K. A. Adedokun, who gave the order on Thursday, also gave an order restraining Pastor Olaoye from parading, representing or presenting himself as the candidate for any ceremony for the issuance of certificate of installation or wear any regalia resembling that of the occupant of the stool of Soun of Ogbomoso Chieftaincy pending the hearing and final determination of the mandatory injunction already filed before the court.
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Adedokun said Prince Olaoye should serve the motion on notice for mandatory injunction on all the 12 respondents in the suit.
Adedokun said after hearing the counsel to Prince Olaoye, Abiodun Ogunjinmi, who moved a motion ex-parte before the court and after carefully perusing the application, the affidavit in support, the affidavit of urgency, which are the three exhibits attached, as well as the written address, he is convinced the application has merit.
He held: “I am convinced that the application is one of the instances where this honourable court is empowered by Order 48 Rule 8 to exercise its discretion in favour of grant of same.
“One of the situations which an injunction is designed to combat is to arrest a fait accompli which the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 12th respondents have attempted to foist on the circumstances of this case.
“In this situation, the application is ordered as prayed and accordingly.”
Adedokun thereafter adjourned the matter to September 12, 2023 for the hearing of the application.
Other respondents in the suit are Ogbomoso North Traditional Council; Prince Amos Olaoye, the Mogaji of Olaoye Ruling House; Chief S.O. Otolorin, the Areago of Ogbomosoland, who is also the chairman of the kingmakers of Soun Chieftaincy; Chief Salawu Ajadi, the Jagun of Ogbomosoland; Chief Tijani Abioye, the Baara of of Ogbomosoland; Chief David Adeniran Ojo, the Ikolaba of Ogbomosoland; and Chief Yusuf Rasaki Oladipupo, the Abese of Ogbomosoland.
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