BY OLA AJAYI
ALAAFIN of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has asked an Oyo State High Court to commit the out-going Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala and the state Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ladi Abdusalam and Alago Oja for allegedly refusing to obey two separate court orders.

The monarch said the governor was refusing to execute the orders given in 2007 and 2008 that he should stop recognizing Mr. Ganiyu Ajiboye as the Alago Oja of Ago Oja in Oyo town.

Justices O.A. Akinola and J. A Fabiyi in their rulings had ordered that “the creation, appointment and installation of Baale Ago Oja was illegal, null and void, unconstitutional”.

The courts then said Ganiyu Ajiboye must vacate the official residence he occupied and stop parading himself as a traditional chief.

In the enrolment order dated 18th May, 2011, Justice Gbolagunte had granted the order for substituted service.

For fair hearing, the court said Alaafin should either paste or drop the form within the premises of the Government House, Ibadan for the out-going governor and the premises of the Ministry of Justice, Ibadan for the Attorney General and the official residence of Ganiyu Ajiboye.

In the earlier order, justice  Akinola said “the creation, appointment and installation of Baale Ago Oja was illegal, null and void, unconstitutional” and that the title of Baale Ago-Oja was “non-existent, illegal, unconstitutional, null and void”.

It also described as worthless a certificate of office issued to the embattled chief a “worthless piece of paper”.