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By James Ogunnaike
The families of Adeberu, Olufadi and Ayora/Tunwase of Fusengbuwa Ruling House, Ile Nla, Agunsebi, Ijebu Ode person dragged the Ogun State Government, erstwhile National president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, Abdulateef Owoyemi; laminitis of Eye Foundation Hospital, Dr. Kunle Hassan, and 2 others, earlier an Ogun State High Court, sitting successful Ijebu Ode, implicit the enactment tussle rocking the ruling house.
According to the suit filed connected September 17, and made disposable to journalists yesterday, representatives of the 3 royal families, Adedokun Ajidagba, Adeleke Adeyemi and Ademola Sonaya, urged the tribunal to halt Owoyemi from parading himself arsenic the caput (Olori Ebi) of the Fusengbuwa ruling house.
The Fusengbuwa ruling location is the adjacent to nutrient the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebu Land aft the demise of 91-year-old Oba Sikiru Adetona connected July 13, 2025 after 65 years’ reign.
Adedokun, according to the documents filed earlier the court, asserted that Owoyemi has nary ancestral nexus to the Ile-Nla compound successful Agunsebi, the historical household location of Fusengbuwa.
He listed the ruling house’s 8 recognised branches arsenic Olufadi, Ayora/Tunwase, Shenowo, Okuyandewo, Oshinuga, Adekenu, Adebiyi, and Adeberu.
Adedokun caimed that Owoyemi hails from Ikoro-Ekiti and not Ijebu-Ode, a presumption helium affirmed was corroborated by the precocious Awujale of Ijebuland, during a tribunal proceeding astatine Ijebu-Ode successful 2018.
He said his assignment arsenic Olori-Ebi of Fusengbuwa was ratified connected November 23, 2023, with authoritative notification sent to the Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and the precocious Adetona.
Adedokun declared that helium remains the authentic caput of the Fusengbuwa ruling location and prayed tribunal to accede to the petition of the 3 royal families and halt Owoyemi from parading himself henceforth arsenic the caput of the ruling house.
The tribunal is, however, yet to hole a day for the proceeding of the suit
Recall that the erstwhile ICAN President had insisted that helium remains the morganatic caput of the Fusengbuwa ruling location by virtuousness of the Ibadan Court of Appeal judgement of 2024, which ruled successful his favour and confirmed the information that helium has been the ruling location caput appointed since 2013 aft the decease of Prince Fasasi Adeyemi
He stated that successful 2011, helium was appointed arsenic the Deputy to the past caput of the family, Adeyemi and by 2013, helium was appointed arsenic the Olori Ebi aft the decease of Adeyemi.
Owoyemi explained that aft his assignment arsenic the Olori Ebi of Fusengbuwa successful March 2013, a splinter radical had besides appointed the precocious billionaire banker and laminitis of First City Monument Bank, Otunba Subomi Balogun, arsenic the caput of the aforesaid family.
He disclosed that helium had challenged the anomaly astatine a High Court sitting astatine Ijebu Ode and that portion giving his judgement successful 2018, Justice Asenuga resolved 2 of the issues brought earlier the tribunal successful his favour but failed to state him arsenic the Olori Ebi of Fusengbuwa.
“I approached the Court of Appeal sitting astatine Ibadan and connected November 28, 2024, successful a judgement delivered by Justice Binta Fatima Zubairu, resolved each 7 issues brought earlier the tribunal successful my favour,” Owoyemi stated.
He added that helium remains a bonafide lad of Ijebu onshore from Idowa Ijebu and that past attempts to distort past had been quashed by the November 2024 Ibadan Court of Appeal judgment
The Octogenarian urged each subordinate of the ruling location to shun division, strife and avarice but cooperate with the enactment of the household for a rancour-free enactment process for the adjacent Awujale.
The station Awujale stool: Fusengbuwa ruling location successful enactment face-off appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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