The case, instituted by the dethroned conventional ruler, Oba Joseph Oloyede, and members of the Latimogun Royal Family, is difficult strikes by the state authorities to nominate a replacement for the monarch.
The claimants are asking an Osun State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife to stop Governor Ademola Adeleke and different authorities officers from putting in one other individual as Apetumodu pending the willpower of the substantive suit.
Oba Oloyede, who’s the second claimant in suit quantity HIF/50/2026, particularly sought an interlocutory injunction restraining the defendants from taking additional steps in the direction of filling the vacant conventional stool.
In his utility dated September 16, 2026, the previous monarch argued that the state authorities didn’t notify him of any alleged misconduct earlier than initiating the method that resulted in his removing.
He maintained that he was not allowed to reply to any allegation earlier than his purported deposition was introduced.
The utility acknowledged that Governor Adeleke had signed an instrument dated May 7, 2026, eradicating Oloyede from the throne.
According to the courtroom doc, “There was no time the 2nd claimant/applicant was knowledgeable by the 1st-Third defendants of any wrongdoing earlier than the announcement of his removing.”
The claimant consequently asked the court to “restrain the governor, authorities officers, their brokers and representatives from appointing one other individual to occupy the Apetumodu stool till the substantive case was concluded.”
Other claimants within the suit embody Prince Oyewusi Adewusi, Prince Isaac Adewuni and Prince Abiodun Oyetoro, who instituted the motion on behalf of themselves and different members of the Latimogun Royal Family of the Aribile Ruling House.
Apart from Governor Adeleke, the defendants embody the Osun State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Afolabi Adedeji, the Asalu of Ipetumodu, Chief Adesoye Babalola, the Malefon of Ipetumodu and Ife North Local Government.
At Monday’s proceedings, the hearing couldn’t start due to points surrounding the service of hearing notices on the events.
Only counsel to the claimants, O. Ogbewe, and Soji Oyetayo, who represented the fifth defendant, Chief Adesoye Babalola, appeared earlier than the courtroom.
While Ogbewe knowledgeable the courtroom that the defendants had been served with the related courtroom processes, Oyetayo disputed the declare, stating that he had not obtained the hearing discover.
He requested an adjournment to allow the claimants to serve the required notices on all of the defendants.
In his ruling, Justice Dapo Adeniji adjourned the matter till January 21, 2027, and directed that contemporary hearing notices be issued and served on the defendants.
Oba Oloyede’s removing adopted his conviction within the United States over offences involving tax fraud and cash laundering. The Osun State Government subsequently authorized his deposition because the Apetumodu of Ipetumodu.
