Disregard falsehoods, Igbooye Obaship case still in Supreme Court – Erelu ruling house tells public

By Oluwole Adeboye

The Erelu Ruling House of Igbooye town in Epe, Lagos State, has warned the public to disregard falsehoods allegedly being spread by mischief makers over the Igbooye Obaship tussle.

According to the family, the case still subsists at the Supreme Court, adding that its appeal, which was struck out on the 29th of April 2024, has been refiled.

It said the case was resubmitted on the 2nd May 2024 with suit number SC/ CV/285/2024.

The Secretary to the Community and of the Erelu Ruling House, Otunba Anthony Oguntimehin, told P.M.NEWS on Thursday in Lagos that the clarification is necessary to correct “the wrong impression created in the public through publication of falsehoods in some national and online dailies by one Wasiu Musa Adebamowo with a view to causing confusion among the members of the public.

“This man is a Deputy Director and he is directly involved in the matter because he is hell-bent on imposing his younger brother, Rasak Musa Adebamowo as the new monarch without following the laid down procedure as contained in the chieftaincy declaration and moreso during the pendency of an appeal at the Supreme court saying that he can no longer wait after being at the various hierarchies of court for seventeen years.

“He said those who are still interested in pursuing the appeal can continue while he should be allowed to crown his younger brother as the new king. He is the factional head of Ewade ruling house which is one of the four ruling houses when he has deliberately sidelined the inputs and contributions of the other three ruling houses of Erelu, Shamba and Oshikadewa.

“He presented forged documents to the Lagos state government through the Ministry of Justice where he is presently a member of staff.

“The Igbooye community has written several letters dissociating itself from the forged documents presented alone to the government intimating the state Governor, the Deputy Governor, the Speaker of the state house of Assembly, the Attorney General, Commissioner for Local Government, Solicitor General, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government and Director of Legal Drafting at the Ministry of Justice who are all stakeholders in the approval and appointment of a new monarch,” Oguntimehin explained.