Osun government says no plan to remove monarch
Village heads and indigenes of Osogbo on Thursday staged a peaceful protest, asking the state government not to depose Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji.
The protest took off from the residence of the leader of Osogbo Village Heads, Chief Jimoh Buraimo, and moved to Odi-Olowo before moving in a long convoy of vehicles to Abere Government Secretariat, in Osun State.
Armed with placards with inscriptions such as; ‘Don’t cause confusion and violence in Osogbo’, ‘Stop attempt to depose Oba Jimoh Abidemi Olanipekun,’ amongst others, the protesters said the state government was after the royal father for undisclosed reasons.
Addressing journalists, Chief Buraimo, alleged of clandestine moves by the government to depose Oba Olanipekun without any just cause.
He said, “The attempt by the Osun State Government to take this unholy approach is against the backdrop of the existing case instituted by the members of Oluwin Ajibilu/Oyekomi Family of Oyekomi’s Compound, Osogbo in Suit No: HOS/115/2022: PRINCE SAKARIYAU ALABI ADEBIYI & 2 ORS VS HRM OBA JIMOH OLANIPEKUN (ATAOJA OF OSOGBO). The 3rd, 4th and 5th defendants represent the Osun State Government and the case is still pending at the High Court of Justice, Osogbo.
“The current attempt being made by the state government is capable of disrupting the existing peace in Osogbo and Osun State in general. It is equally an attempt to usurp the power and function of the judiciary to adjudicate on the matter currently pending in the court of law and it is highly prejudicial to and contemptuous of the process of the honourable court of Osun State.
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