Awujale selection suit stalled as case file returned for reassignment

A abrogation judge, Justice A. A. Omoniyi of Court 3, Ogun State High Court, sitting successful Ijebu-Ode, on Wednesday gave an interim ruling returning a suit filed by the Fusengbuwa Ruling House against Governor Dapo Abiodun, the 9 kingmakers and others implicit the stoppage of the enactment process for the adjacent Awujale, to the administrative justice for reassignment.

Justice Omoniyi said helium would beryllium embarking connected his yearly abrogation wrong the adjacent 1 week and mightiness not instrumentality to work until January 2027.

He said helium was alert of the urgency of the suit, numbered HCJ/149/2026, and filed connected August 21, 2026, but was constrained by time, having lone 1 week near earlier embarking connected his yearly vacation.

Justice Omoniyi truthful ruled, successful the interim, that the lawsuit record should beryllium returned to the administrative justice for reallocation.

He adjourned the substance to September 23, 2026, for continued hearing.

Speaking earlier, counsel to the Fusengbuwa Ruling House, Olusegun Otayemi, told the tribunal that each 15 defendants had been duly served and that the household was acceptable to proceed with the suit.

Kunle Kalejaiye, SAN, who announced his quality for the 7th to 15th defendants, the kingmakers, arsenic good arsenic W. A. Onawole, a authorities counsel who announced...