By James Ogunnaike
The households of Adeberu, Olufadi and Ayora/Tunwase of Fusengbuwa Ruling Home, Ile Nla, Agunsebi, Ijebu Ode have dragged the Ogun State Authorities, former Nationwide president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, Abdulateef Owoyemi; founding father of Eye Basis Hospital, Dr. Kunle Hassan, and two others, earlier than an Ogun State Excessive Courtroom, sitting in Ijebu Ode, over the management tussle rocking the ruling home.
In accordance with the go well with filed on September 17, and made obtainable to journalists yesterday, representatives of the three royal households, Adedokun Ajidagba, Adeleke Adeyemi and Ademola Sonaya, urged the courtroom to cease Owoyemi from parading himself as the top (Olori Ebi) of the Fusengbuwa ruling home.
The Fusengbuwa ruling home is the following to supply the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebu Land after the demise of 91-year-old Oba Sikiru Adetona on July 13, 2025 after 65 years’ reign.
Adedokun, in accordance with the paperwork filed earlier than the courtroom, asserted that Owoyemi has no ancestral hyperlink to the Ile-Nla compound in Agunsebi, the historic household home of Fusengbuwa.
He listed the ruling home’s eight recognised branches as Olufadi, Ayora/Tunwase, Shenowo, Okuyandewo, Oshinuga, Adekenu, Adebiyi, and Adeberu.
Adedokun caimed that Owoyemi hails from Ikoro-Ekiti and never Ijebu-Ode, a place he affirmed was corroborated by the late Awujale of Ijebuland, throughout a courtroom continuing at Ijebu-Ode in 2018.
He mentioned his appointment as Olori-Ebi of Fusengbuwa was ratified on November 23, 2023, with official notification despatched to the Ogun State Commissioner for Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs and the late Adetona.
Adedokun declared that he stays the genuine head of the Fusengbuwa ruling home and prayed courtroom to accede to the request of the three royal households and cease Owoyemi from parading himself henceforth as the top of the ruling home.
The courtroom is, nevertheless, but to repair a date for the listening to of the go well with
Recall that the previous ICAN President had insisted that he stays the respectable head of the Fusengbuwa ruling home by advantage of the Ibadan Courtroom of Attraction judgement of 2024, which dominated in his favour and confirmed the truth that he has been the ruling home head appointed since 2013 after the dying of Prince Fasasi Adeyemi
He acknowledged that in 2011, he was appointed because the Deputy to the then head of the household, Adeyemi and by 2013, he was appointed because the Olori Ebi after the dying of Adeyemi.
Owoyemi defined that after his appointment because the Olori Ebi of Fusengbuwa in March 2013, a splinter group had additionally appointed the late billionaire banker and founding father of First Metropolis Monument Financial institution, Otunba Subomi Balogun, as the top of the identical household.
He disclosed that he had challenged the anomaly at a Excessive Courtroom sitting at Ijebu Ode and that whereas giving his judgment in 2018, Justice Asenuga resolved two of the problems introduced earlier than the courtroom in his favour however didn’t declare him because the Olori Ebi of Fusengbuwa.
“I approached the Courtroom of Attraction sitting at Ibadan and on November 28, 2024, in a judgment delivered by Justice Binta Fatima Zubairu, resolved all seven points introduced earlier than the courtroom in my favour,” Owoyemi acknowledged.
He added that he stays a bonafide son of Ijebu land from Idowa Ijebu and that previous makes an attempt to distort historical past had been quashed by the November 2024 Ibadan Courtroom of Attraction judgment
The Octogenarian urged each member of the ruling home to shun division, strife and avarice however cooperate with the management of the household for a rancour-free choice course of for the following Awujale.
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