Awujale succession crisis deepens as Adele Council drags Abiodun, AIAC to court

The situation implicit the vacant stool of the Awujale of Ijebuland has deepened, arsenic the Adele Awujale-in-Council has dragged Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and members of the Awujale Interregnum Administrative Council, AIAC, to court.

The suit, marked HCJ/201/2026, was filed astatine the High Court of Ogun State, sitting successful Ijebu-Ode, by the Adele Awujale-in-Council, led by the Adele and Ogbeni Oja of Ijebuland, Olo'rgun Dr Sonny Kuku.

The assembly is challenging the instauration and reconstitution of the AIAC by the politician and the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

In the suit, the claimants are asking the tribunal to state that, nether the autochthonal law, customized and contented of the Ijebu-Ode people, the Adele Awujale-in-Council is the sole valid accepted administrative authorization entitled to negociate interim affairs during an interregnum.

They are besides asking the tribunal to state that the instauration of the AIAC is alien, chartless and violative to the customs of the Ijebu-Ode radical and inconsistent with the Chiefs Law of Ogun State.

The assembly wants the tribunal to acceptable speech the reconstitution of the AIAC and the appointments of its members, describing them arsenic irregular, illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.

It is besides seeking an orde...