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Kingmakers Reject Owoade’s Appointment As Alaafin Of Oyo

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Kingmakers Reject Owoade’s Appointment As Alaafin Of Oyo
The Oyo Mesi rejects Owoade, endorses Lukman
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  • Kingmakers in Oyo state have come out to reject Owoade as king.

  • The kingmakers declared the nomination null and void, while tagging it as being illegal and unlawful.

  • They also emphasized their desired candidate as Prince Lukman Gbadegesin

Five kingmaker in Oyo town have rejected Omooba Abimbola Owoade as Alaafin of Oyo.

Daily Report Nigeria recalls Owoade being nominated by the Governor of the state, Seyi Makinde.

Kingmakers Reject Owoade’s Appointment As Alaafin Of Oyo
The Oyo Mesi rejects Owoade, endorses Gbadegesin

In recent news, the five kingmakers declared the nomination null and void, while stating that they had not recommended him for the position of the Alaafin, white also emphasizing that their sole recommendation is Omooba Prince Lukman Gbadegesin.

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“You will recall that on 30th September, 2022 at the meeting of the Kingmakers in accordance with the Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration, 1961, the Kingmakers appointed Prince Lukman Adelodun Gbadegesin as the Alaafin of Oyo by majority of the lawful votes of the Kingmakers.

 

“Prince Lukman Adelodun Gbadegesin having obtained the majority of votes of the Kingmakers present and voting was deemed appointed and his name was forwarded to your Excellency as the candidate appointed by the Kingmakers as Alaafin of Oyo for your approval which you refused to approved for no disclosed reason at all. The Kingmakers thereafter filed an action to stop your excellency from truncating the process, culminating in the present appeal at the court of appeal,”

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“We must emphatically state that the Alaafin is not chosen by consultation or divination but in strict compliance with the Registered Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration of 1967, which codifies the native law and custom governing the selection process for the vacant stool of the Alaafin.

“Any meeting of few kingmakers and emergency warrant chiefs held at the Governor’s office or elsewhere at the instance of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, to select the preferred candidate of the Governor as the new Alaafin is not only contrary to the native law and custom and Chieftaincy Declaration of Alafin of Oyo Chieftaincy but unlawful, illegal, invalid, null and void.

 

“It is not the duty of the Governor to convene the meeting of few kingmakers and emergency warrant chiefs to select or appoint a new Alaafin on the 9th of January, 2025 and hurriedly approve the appointment on the 10th of January, 2025,” they added

 

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