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Ibadan obaship row: 315 Mogajis head to court, government says Ladoja’s crown intact

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Three hundred and fifteen Mogajis (family heads) in Ibadanland have headed to court, asking that the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, either reverses the promotion of the Baales (village heads) to their new status of Royal Highnesses or await the court’s verdict on the government’s reform of the chieftaincy system in Ibadan.
The Mogajis are contending that the reforms will bring the chieftaincy system in Ibadanland into disrepute.
One of the spokesmen of the group, Chief Wale Oladoja, a family head of the Akinsola from Labiran compound, in Ibadan on Wednesday evening confirmed this development.
Oladoja also confirmed that he endorsed an earlier press release, which was also signed by another Mogaji from Adanla compound, Chief Abdul Jelili Karimu.
He said 315 of them held a meeting with the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, earlier in the day in solidarity with the monarch’s opposition to the Oyo State Government’s elevation of high chiefs and Baales.
Oladoja, a former Director, Odu’a Investment Company Limited, said the Forum of Mogajis are solidly behind the Olubadan and would seek redress in the court.
He wondered how Baales, who, by Ibadan customs and tradition, were under them in hierarchy, could be promoted as kings at their (Mogajis) expense.
In the release jointly endorsed by him and Karimu, the Ibadan family heads said the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, which on Tuesday claimed that 90 per cent of Ibadan indigenes back Governor Ajimobi’s chieftaincy review, has no capacity to do so.
He said the CCII is just an umbrella organisation of socio-cultural clubs and societies where people drink beer and take pepper soup.
They wondered how, when and where the CCII leadership conducted its survey before arriving at such a ridiculous figure of 90 per cent when town hall meetings were not conducted.
Meanwhile, the Oyo State Government on Wednesday said the Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland and former Governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has not rejected the obaship title it conferred on him on August 25, 2017.
The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Bimbo Kolade, an architect, disclosed this during an inter-ministerial press briefing held at the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism at the Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan.
According to Kolade, who addressed journalists with his counterpart from the Ministry of Information, Toye Arulogun, Ladoja said he was not available to receive the crown and the beaded-crown has been kept for him until he will be available.
Ladoja had in a statement issued by his media aide, Alhaji Lanre Latinwo, on Tuesday he would not accept the crown because he would not be a king without domain, alleging further that the recent review of the Olubadan chieftaincy was targeted at him.
But Kolade said each of the 11 members of the Olubadan-in-Council, including Ladoja, presides over the traditional councils in each of the 11 local government areas of Ibadanland, adding that the installation of 21 kings in Ibadan on August 27 would not increase the expenditure of government because each member of the Olubadan-in-Council would continue to draw their salaries from the local government each of them presides over as they gave been doing when they were High Chiefs.
His words: “Honestly, I wonder where anybody saw that the Osi Olubadan has said that he has rejected the crown.
“I have not seen him rejecting the crown.
“To us in the ministry, there is not a single letter with us in the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters where the current Osi Olubadan has written to say he has rejected the crown.
“He has only said that he was not available.
“We are still expecting and waiting for his availability to pick up his crown.
“Whenever he’s available, he will pick up his crown.”
Kolade also dismissed the speculations that the review of 1957 Olubadan of Ibadanland Chieftaincy Declaration by the government has placed the Baales (village heads) above the Mogajis (family head)
He said: “So, Mogajis still remain the Mogajis.
“They still remain the heads of their families in the city.
“They still retain and perform all their rites.
“But all the Baales that have become obas don’t have mogajis in the city.
“If anyone is in doubt, the person should show me the Mogaji that covers Ijaiye or the Mogaji that covers Awotan and so on.
“Once you are entitled to Mogaji in the city, you don’t need to wear crown in the village.”
Arulogun said the Ajimobi-led administration in the state did wide consultation before the review and the reform, adding: “The consultation even predates the current Olubadan.
“The issue of review and reform predate the current Olubadan of Ibadan.
“It started with members of Olubadan-in-Council then like Chief Omowale Kuye, the late Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, who raised some of these issues because of the low level of respect and dignity accorded to the High Chiefs, especially when they go to public functions.
“What government did is by the law.
“The government followed due process.
“Gazettes are not done in the palace because I heard people saying the gazette should have been done in the palace.
“The law is clear.
“If you are in doubt, go to the Oyo State Printing Press.
“We have the gazette and it is clearly spelt out there.
“The judicial panel sat for three months and it was public sitting.
“If you had any disagreement, you would to the sitting.
“That is enough consultation.
“With 118 memoranda, are we saying that all other people don’t know what they are doing?
“The law says if the Olubadan does not agree, even the chieftaincy committee, three days after, the governor can take his decision.
“The law is clear on it.
“So, government followed due process.
“Also, there is no judicial impediment to this thing.
“Anybody who is in doubt should go to the law court.
“Then, the lawyers will take it out.
“When Ibadan was founded, there was no Olubadan.
“It started with Baale.
“So, it was an upgrade, a review, a reform that made Olubadan to be wearing crown.
“The law provides for a periodic review.”

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