Olubadan
An Ibadan High Court presided over by Justice Oladiran Akintola, Monday ordered that hearing notice of the suit filed by the Seriki Chiefs be served on the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji and other members of the Olubadan-In-Council.
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The Seriki Chiefs led by High Chief Bayo Oyediji, had dragged Governor Abiola Ajimobi, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and members of the Olubadan-In-Council to court, over the installation of Oba Adetunji, following the death of Oba Samuel Odulana.
He had seek the order of the court that it is the turn of the Seriki line to produce the next Olubadan after the death of Oba Odulana
At the resumed hearing of the case, counsel to the Seriki Chiefs, Mr. Sarafadeen Sanni, had drawn attention of the court to the fact that the defendants most especially members of the Olubadan-In-Council, had been employing delay tactics to prolong the case to the detriment of his clients.
According to him, the last time that members of the Olubadan-In-Council last appeared or represented in the case was February 10, 2016, urging the court to do everything within the law to come to the rescue of his clients by fixing a date for the case to commence in earnest.
Justice Akintola however drew his attention to the letter written to the court by the counsel representing the state, Mr. Salau Adegboyega, requesting for the adjournment of the case to either March 27 or 31 due to other official engagements.
Sanni in his response said while he would not oppose that the case be adjourned, the dates suggested by the state counsel were too long as the two days were over a month.
The presiding judge however enjoined him to pick within the dates suggested by the state counsel, stating that it would amount to futility to fix a hearing date for the case and at the end of the day; the state counsel would come again with a letter for adjournment when he was not part of the date picked.
Justice Akintola then adjourned the case to March 27 after Sanni has agreed with the date, ordering that a hearing order which may be the final be served on all the defendants in the case.
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