Justice Olajumoke Aiki of Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, on Wednesday adjourned the case filed by the Osi Olubadan, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, against the review of the 1959 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration till January 19, 2018, for judgement.
In the suit, the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the Chairman of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry that reviewed the 1959 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration, Justice Akintunde Boade, were listed as first and second respondents respectively.
The court adjourned the case for ruling and judgement after the lead counsel to Ladoja, Mr. Michael Lana; counsel to Ajimobi, Mallam Yusuf Alli (SAN); and counsel to Justice Boade, Mr. Seun Abimbola, who is the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Oyo State, concluded their submissions on the originating summons.
Counsel to the claimants and the defendants had argued vehemently on why the court should rule in their favour.
Ladoja, who is a former governor of the state, and Otun Olubadan, Lekan Balogun, had sued the state government over the constitution of the commission by the Oyo State Government on Friday May 19, 2017.
The claimants prayed the court, in the suit number M/317/2017, to restrain the commission from sitting, accepting any memorandum or in any way taking any step in furtherance of its assignment, pending the determination of motion on notice in respect of the subject.
But Balogun later withdrew from the case.
Ladoja also approached the court to set aside the report of Justice Akintunde Boade-led Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the review of Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration.
The court had earlier granted the application of Ladoja that both the preliminary objections raised by the defendants be heard with the originating summons.
