Olufemi Atoyebi, IbadanThe Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has appealed the ruling of Justice Olajumoke Aiki, which declared the installation of 21 new kings in Ibadanland null and void. In the appeal filed on Ajimobi’s behalf by his counsel, Yusuf Ali (SAN) at the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, Ibadan Judicial Division, with suit number M/317/2017, the governor hinged his appeal on 11 grounds which summed up his counsel’s views that Justice Aiki erred in her ruling. Joined in the suit, with Ladoja as respondent, is Justice Akintunde Boade, who was the chairman of the review panel. In the appeal, Ajimobi claimed that the judge erred by overruling all the heads of the preliminary objection raised to the competence of Ladoja’s case and in the process, failed and refused to follow decided authorities of appellate courts cited before him. “The learned judge erred in law and gravely misdirected himself in holding that the case of the first respondent (Ladoja) as constituted is not academic, hypothetical and will serve no useful purpose.

Source: Punch January 23, 2018 17:48 UTC