Prince Ali Afolabi, a contestant to the stool of Aree of Iree from the Olubonku ruling home has alleged fraud within the choice strategy of a brand new monarch for Iree city.
reporter recollects that in January, the Osun State Authorities launched a White Paper ordering a contemporary choice course of for the city’s conventional stool.
“Particularly on Aree of Iree Chieftaincy, the substantive chiefs are enjoined to withdraw their swimsuit earlier than the Court docket to permit for the graduation of the choice course of according to due course of and custom,” the White Paper beneficial.
The transfer has not gone down effectively with the city’s kingmakers and a few stakeholders who insisted that it was an aberration of custom.
Nevertheless, Afolabi, by way of a letter dated February 26, 2024 and addressed to the Commissioner for Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs in Osun, Dosu Babatunde, by his lawyer, Folorunso Apantaku, disclosed that as a result of closure of courts, pending instances have been but to be withdrawn in conformity with the dictates of the White Paper.
Afolabi declared that the contemporary choice course of performed on February 22, 2024 by the Boripe North native authorities space of the state, which purportedly produced Prince Ibraheem Oyelakin because the Oba-elect violated the rule of regulation and was not according to the chieftaincy legal guidelines of Osun State process and the custom of the city.
Whereas describing the choice process as a whole fraud, Afolabi famous that two kingmakers voted within the election that was alleged to have six kingmakers.
“Boripe North native authorities failed in its statutory obligation to nominate warrant chiefs to interchange the vacant kingmakers.
“Out of the 4 kingmakers alive, two voted whereas the 2 others voted in proxy, a scenario that contravenes due course of and rendered the train unlawful and unacceptable,” he claimed.
Calling on the state authorities to cancel the fraudulent choice train, Afolabi disclosed that there was an injunction restraining the native authorities and the kingmakers of Iree city from taking any steps within the choice strategy of Aree of Iree pending the listening to and willpower of the Movement on Discover.
When contacted, the state Commissioner for Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs, Dosu Babatunde, didn’t reply to a textual content message despatched to him.
