Lagos: Court of Appeal adjourns suit over Agbowa-Ikosi monarch dispute

The Court of Appeal sitting successful Igbosere has adjourned proceeding connected a suit filed by Mr Saheed Owolabi Momson Aduloju challenging an earlier appellate judgement that removed him arsenic the Abowa of Agbowa-Ikosi successful the Ejinrin-Ikosi Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.

The substance was adjourned to October 28 after submissions from counsel representing the Mabudeje Royal Family, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), who urged the tribunal to let the lawsuit proceed connected its substantive issues without unnecessary procedural delays.

The sheet proceeding the lawsuit is made up of Justices Boloukuromo Moses Ugo, Samuel Ademola Bola, and Polycarp Terna Kwahar.

Counsel to some sides did not reason the adjournment.

The quality stems from a erstwhile judgement of the Court of Appeal successful Suit No. CA/LAG/CV/1104/2023, delivered connected May 30, 2024, by a sheet comprising Justices Muhammed Mustapha, Paul Ahmed Bassi, and Ngozi Uwazurunoye Okaisabor.

In that decision, the appellate tribunal acceptable speech an earlier ruling delivered by the little tribunal connected March 24, 2023, and ordered the removal of Mr Aduloju arsenic the accepted ruler of the co...