Awujale Stool: Ogun govt reconstitutes Interregnum Council, declares 'Adele Oba' illegal

The Ogun State Government has reconstituted the Awujale Interregnum Administrative Council, AIAC, declaring that the purported Adele Oba Awujale radical has nary ineligible oregon customary recognition.

In a connection connected Tuesday by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Ganiyu Hamzat, the authorities said the reconstitution became indispensable pursuing the reported withdrawal of immoderate members of the assembly earlier established successful August 2025.

Hamzat said the withdrawal did not invalidate the AIAC, which remains the lone legally recognised assemblage empowered to negociate the administrative and accepted affairs of Ijebuland pending the assignment and coronation of a caller Awujale.

He disclosed that Chief Chris Okunowo and Alhaji Rasheed Adeoye Adesanya, the Olisa of Ijebu-Ode, had publically dissociated themselves from the reported wide withdrawal.

Addressing the emergence of the Adele Oba Awujale group, the commissioner said neither the Awujale Chieftaincy Declaration nor the Obas and Chiefs Law of Ogun State 2021 makes proviso for specified a assemblage oregon assigns it immoderate relation successful managing the stool.

He added that the Chiefs Law of 1957 being relied upon by immoderate erstwhile members was a pre-independence authorities that nary longer applies to Ogun State, which has operated nether its ain laws since 1976.

The authorities cited a consent judgement delivered by the Ogun State High Court successful suit fig HCJ/180...