- Blames Oyetola, Police
A Prince from Abioye Ruling House, Prince Adeniyi Abubakar has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) government in Osun State for throwing its support behind the deposed monarch of the ancient town Oba Taiwo Razaq Adegboye.
He said the reason why the deposed Adegboye has refused to abdicate the throne as ordered by the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State, is because he is enjoying the protection of the Osun State Government as “an unrepentant member of the outgoing All Progresssives Congress in the state.”
Prince Abubarka gave the hint in a statement made available to Sunrise News alleged that the leadership of the party in the State and Governor Adegboyega Oyetola led State Government had told Adegboye not to respect the judgment of the Court of Appeal because they were in control of government and could do anything they like.
Abubarkah, who is a Crown Prince from Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo in Egbedore Local Government, Area of the State, maintained that the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Akure that dethroned Taiwo Adegboye as the Alawo, was very straight forward and unambiguous, as it ordered Taiwo Adegboye to stop parading himself as Alawo in and outside the State.
He spoke against the back drop of the allegation of disobedience to Appeal Court judgment levelled against the Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo because of Taiwo Abdulrasaq Adegboye’s flagrant disobedience to Appeal Court judgment.
Speaking further on continuing poking finger into the eyes of the law by disobeying the Appeal Court judgment by his younger brother (Taiwo Adegboye), Abubakarh stated that Adegboye was disobeying the Court judgment at his own volition and not does not represent the interest of the entire members of Abioye Ruling House/Compound in Awo.
He insisted that other members of the Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo, were law abidinbg citizens and respecters of the rule of law.
Blaming Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the authority of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), for allowing Taiwo Adegboye to continue disobeying the Court of Appeal judgment delivered on August 8th, 2022, by Hon. Justice Habeeb Adewale Abiru, and concurred by the two other Judges of the Appellate Court including; Hon. Justice Ayobode Lokulo-Sodipe and Hon. Justice Yusuf Alhaji Bashiru.
He described the plan by Taiwo Adegboye to confer honorary chieftaincy title on some unsuspected members of the community this week, as tantamount to contempt of the Appellate Court which he said is liable to imprisonment, urging those slated for this illegality to stay clear of becoming contemnor.
Quoting the part of Appeal Court judgment with appeal N0: CA/AK/58/2021, “The Court further orders as follows: i. An order is hereby made setting aside the selection, the appointment, the approval and the installation of the second Appellant, Honourable Adegboye Taiwo Rasaq, as the Alawo of Awo, some of which acts were carried out by the eighth to the eleventh respondents, and they were carried out after this appeal had been entered on the 25th of June, 2021 and was pending before this Court and the second Appellant is directed to vacate the stool forthwith.
“ii. The second Appellant, Honourable Adegboye Taiwo Rasaq, is hereby restrained from parading himself as or performing any of the functions of the Alawo of Awo or wearing or displaying any insignia of the office of Alawo of Awo, including beads, crowns and all other paraphernalia of the stool pending the final determination of this action by the lower Court.”
“In other words, while a matter is pending in Court, the parties have no right to resort to self-help. In this case proceeding to install the 2nd appellant into the contentions stool of the Alawo of Awo, during the pendency of this appeal which revolves squarely around the said stool, to the knowledge of all, is not only contemptuous but an affront to the authority of this Court. The effect of which in the least is to render the coronation and all other activities associated thereto null and void”, Appeal Court submitted.
The Appeal Court then awarded cost of sum of Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N200,000) against Taiwo Adegboye, to be paid to first to fourth Respondents each for bringing frivolous, mischievous and vexation appeal before the Appellate Court in Akure.
Prince Abubakar therefore promised that the Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo, under the headship of the Alhaji (Prince) Abdulkareem Adegboye, would soon make both soft and hard copy of the Appellate Court landmark judgement available to the whole world.
