Awujale: Compel Ogun Govt to complete selection process – Ruling house tells court

The Fusengbuwa Ruling House successful Ijebu-Ode has asked the Ogun State High Court to compel the authorities authorities to proceed and reason with the enactment process of the adjacent Awujale of Ijebuland.

Recall that the Awujale stool became vacant pursuing the decease of the precocious monarch, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, connected Sunday, July 13, 2025, astatine the property of 91.

Following his demise, nary less than 95 people, including 94 princes and a princess from the Fusengbuwa ruling location of Ijebu Ode, indicated their involvement arsenic contestants for the vacant stool.

However, the Ogun State Government connected December 11, 2025, cancelled the enactment process and ordered the ruling location to restart the workout successful strict compliance with the instrumentality to debar prolonged litigation.

Following this directive, the government, done a January 6, 2026 letter, cleared the Fusengbuwa Ruling House to resume the process. But connected January 20, 2026, it suspended the enactment process again, instructing each parties, including the Fusengbuwa Ruling House and Awujale Kingmakers’ Council, to await further directives to support bid and the integrity of the stool.

DAILY POST reports that the Fusengbuwa Ruling House successful a suit filed by Otunba AbduLateef Adebayo Owoyemi (Oloriebi/Family Chairman), Otunba Adedokun Ajidagba (Family Deputy Chairman) and Prof. Fassy Yusuf (Vice Chairman), dragged the authorities government, the Awuja...