The Oyo State Government has filed an appeal to challenge last Wednesday’s judgment by Justice Kareem Adedokun of the state high court, which ordered the removal of Oba Ghandi Olaoye as the Soun of Ogbomoso.
Justice Adedokun, ruling on a suit marked HOG/27/2023 filed by Prince Kabir Olaoye, had nullified the selection process that produced Oba Ghandi as the Soun.
The judge ordered the conduct of a new selection process.
But displeased with the judgment, the Oyo State Government has approached the Ibadan Division of the Court of Appeal seeking to overturn Justice Adedokun’s verdict.
The state, through its lawyer, Akin Onigbinde (SAN), also sought a stay of execution of the October 25 judgment pending the outcome of the appeal.
The appellants are Governor Seyi Makinde, the Oyo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, and the state’s Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Matters.
The notice of appeal dated October 27 is seeking “an order setting aside the judgment of the trial court of October 25, or an order of re-trial before another judge of the Oyo State High Court.”
In the six grounds of appeal, the state government said the trial judge erred in law, maintaining that the judgment could not stand.
