COMMUNITY PROTEST AGAINST FRAUDULENT INSTALLATION OF KINGMAKERS, SEEKS GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
A dispute has broken up over the Alleged fraudulent installations of kingmakers to the Olofin of Ado-Odo, the attention of the Ogun state government has been drawn to what the Bajomo ruling Family in the Ado-Odo kingdom in Ogun state has described as an illegal, questionable installation.
According to Kabir Alagbe, the Lawyer representing the Bajomo ruling Family, the unlawful appointments of the kingmakers became public after the death of Oba Lateef Akanni in 2022, what has further questioned the authenticity of their installation is their continued refusal to submit their certificates for scrutiny.
He said, “The state government should review the list of kingmakers that is tainted with allegations of forgery. The late Oba L.A. Akanni, who reigned between May 2009 and January 2022, was alleged to have issued out certificates to a stranger, Isiaka Musibaudeen as the Bajomo of Ado, contrary to the Chieftain Law of 1958 refer to Section 4(2) which provides for a meeting presided by the Head of Bajomo ruling house in nominating the candidate(s) for the vacant stool of Bajomo which wasn’t done.
The second appointment was the alleged installation of one Tajudeen Adekunjo as the Oga Ilu Oke Osi quarter Ado, a kingmaker that oversees over 50 different families. They went ahead claiming that the late Olofin issued certificates to Bajomo, Oga ilu Oke Osi, and Iraa – Timothy Adedire before he died.
“But the leaders of Ori Egbe-Orita Merin are saying none of the two chiefs alluded to earlier, Bajomo and Oga Ilu, were traditionally installed in Ado in tandem with customary rites.”
No kingmaker can be installed without their knowledge, which is a condition precedent to the emergence of title or kingmakers, they said.
