Oyo LG polls: Alaafin, Ajimobi explore out-of-court settlement

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, yesterday visited the Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, to explore the alternative dispute resolution mechanism in settling the dispute arising from the creation of 35 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, in the state.

The foremost monarch dropped the hint in an interview with newsmen shortly after emerging from a closed-door meeting with the governor in Ibadan.

He said that the suit filed by some aggrieved traditional chiefs challenging the alleged ceding of parts of their domain to Ogbomoso under the newly created LCDA would be resolved amicably very soon in order not to subject the people to hardship.

One Chief Oladokun Abiola and 14 others from Oyo East Local Government had challenged the creation of the new LCDAs before an Abuja Federal High Court on the premise that it would ostracise them from their ancestral land, while the Alaafin was joined as a respondent in the matter.

It is believed that the Alaafin wield enormous influence over the plaintiffs, who are chiefs and indigenes under the vast Oyo empire.
It will be recalled that Justice John Tsoho of an Abuja Federal High Court had on January 20 granted an interim injunction stopping the Local Government election scheduled for February 11 in the original 33 Local Government and the newly created 35 LCDAs in the state.

Vanguard, February 1, 2017

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