Igbogbo Obaship tussle: Court fixes Oct. 14 for hearing

July 29, 2025 by Our Reporter

The Lagos High Court in Ikorodu has fixed October 14 for hearing in the ongoing dispute over the obaship tussle of Oba of Igbogbo in Ikorodu.

Justice Iyabo Akinkugbe adjourned after listening to the submissions of the counsel.

The claimants in the suit IKD/1162GCMW/2015 are Mrs Oyindamola Osho-Ojuba, Mr Olusanya Adeyemi Osho-Ojuba, Mr Sakiru Odufuwa Osho-Ojuba, Alhaja Karimotu Talabi and Mr Rasaq Ero Osho-Ojuba.

The claimants appeared for themselves and as representatives of the members of Ijaolu-Osho-Ojuba Ruling House of Igbogbo, Lagos State.

The respondents are the Lagos State Government, Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, and Lagos State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

Others are Executive Secretary, Igbogbo/Baiyeku Local Council Development Area and Chief Tajudeen Onasanya (Odofin Of Igbogbo), Chief Ganiu Omotayo, Alhaji Nasirudeen  Oyekande and Alhaji Kolawole Jubril.

The legal battle over the Igbogbo Obaship stool, which began in 2015, has seen multiple judges preside over the matter at various times due to transfers and administrative reassignments.

The claimant’s Counsel, Mr M.O. Ishola, had, however, informed the court that there was a a pending injunction on April 19, 2016, but the monarch and the chiefs of Adeboruwa Oba-in-Council disobeyed the court order and nominated an Oba.

Justice Akintunde Savage, who had initially presided over the matter, has since been transferred to the Ikeja Division.

Consequently, the case file was sent to the Chief Judge for reassignment to a judge within the jurisdiction of Ikorodu.

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Savage had sometimes in 2016, ruled that the Chairman, Council of Kingmakers of Igbogbo, Ikorodu, was a juristic person known to law and could be sued in the case.

Savage had ruled on an application dated May 24 2016, filed by some of the respondents, Omotayo, Oyekade, and Jubril, who had asked the court to strike out the name of the chairman, council of kingmakers of Igbogbo, on the ground that the title was not a juristic personality.

The application was in response to a suit filed by all the claimants on behalf of the Ijaolu (Osho-Ojuba) ruling house, Igbogbo.

The claimants are seeking a court declaration that the directives issued by the Chairman, Council of Kingmakers, to the sixth to eighth respondents to forward a candidate’s name for approval and appointment were unlawful and violated the Obas and Chiefs Law of Lagos State.

They are also asking the court to declare that it is the turn of the Ijaolu (Osho-Ojuba) ruling house to present a candidate for the vacant stool, and for a mandatory injunction compelling the fifth respondent to accept and approve their nominated candidate.