There was wild jubilation on Wednesday in Ikeja, Lagos State, shortly after an Ikeja High Court in Lagos dismissed a suit filed by the Ajisegiri family contesting Oloworo Obaship stool with the Elebo Royal family.
The Oloworo Elect, Aremo Nurudeen Olalekan Saliu, Elebo 2, Sibbings, White Cap chiefs, and members of support groups who thronged the court for the ruling gathered at the court premises, singing solidarity and victory songs.
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The numerous White Cap Chiefs that witnessed court proceedings said the “victory was well deserved.”
The Ikeja High Court in Lagos had, in a judgment delivered by Justice L.A Oluyemi, held that, according to the matter, it was a stare decisis case adjudicated by the supreme Court of Nigeria and the customary declaration of the state recognized only the Elebo’s Royal family of Oworonshoki area of Kosofe Local Government.
The judge cited the past judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, which refused to grant the claimants’ prayers.
“The facts and circumstances of this case are similar to that of the Court of Appeal in Lagos,” the judge said.
The Court awarded the sum of one hundred five thousand against the petitioners/claimants for abuse of the court process.
Kosofe Post reports that the Ajisegiri family filed an exparte motion in December 2022, where the Honourable Court restrained the government from installing a new monarch for the Oworonshoki community.