The interim injunction adopted a swimsuit marked HED/18/2026, filed by A. Mikaheel on behalf of 5 candidates, who’re members of the ruling home in search of to guard their pursuits within the choice of the normal ruler.
The candidates are Princes Babatunde Hammed Adegoke, Taofeek Adekunle Adegoke, Nathaniel Olaniyi Adelakun, Abiodun Adelakun and Olukunle Oyetunji.
They instituted the motion on behalf of themselves and different members of the ruling home towards Governor Adeleke, the Osun State Attorney-General, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Egbedore Traditional Council.
Other defendants embody Prince Mike Abiola, representing members of the Onimolodun Ruling House, and High Chief Falowo Jamiu Adebayo, representing the kingmakers and warrant chiefs concerned within the choice course of.
The candidates had approached the court in search of an interim injunction to forestall the defendants and their representatives from installing, appointing, declaring, recognising or accepting any candidate as the following Olojo of Ojo.
In their software, they requested an order restraining the events from taking any motion concerning the set up of a new monarch pending the listening to and dedication of their movement on discover.
Justice Ok. Akano granted the applying in an order dated October 29, 2026, a replica of which was obtained in Osogbo on Friday.
The choose acknowledged, “An order of interim injunction is hereby granted restraining the defendants, their allies, agents, privies, successors and/or whosoever is claiming through them from installing, appointing, declaring, recognising and/or accepting any candidate as Olojo of Ojo.”
The court acknowledged that the restriction would stay in power “pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed on 11th March, 2026”.
Justice Akano added that the order was issued at Ede beneath the seal of the court and signed by the presiding choose on October 29, 2026.
The improvement comes amid one other chieftaincy dispute in Osun State, following a separate authorized motion instituted by 4 ruling homes in Ijabe, Odo-Otin Local Government Area, towards the state authorities over the appointment of a new Onijabe.
The Ijabe households are difficult the Osun State Executive Council’s choice of October 23, 2026, which reportedly nullified the city’s 2018 amended chieftaincy declaration and permitted the appointment of Babatunde Omotosho Tajudeen because the Onijabe of Ijabeland.
The state authorities had introduced his appointment on Saturday, October 24, 2026, in a press release issued by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi.
