A state High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital has restrained the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), the apex Ibadan socio-cultural organisation, from conducting its bi-annual election slated for Friday, April 4, 2025.
Justice Ladiran Akintola gave the order on Thursday, while ruling on an application brought by a journalist and candidate for the post of CCII Secretary-General, Mr. Adeola Oloko.
Oloko, a former Personal Assistant to the 41st Olubadan, late Oba Saliu Adetunji, had in the application filed by his counsel, Hussein Afolabi, accused CCII Electoral Committee of unjust and unfair disqualification.
He said the committee disenfranchised him and Afikaraun Forimu Club of Ibadan land,which sponsored his candidacy.
Specifically, Oloko took exception to the use of derogatory and weighty words like “impersonation and falsification” by the committee to describe his disqualification. He contended that if the election was allowed to hold without addressing the damages wilfully done to his family name by the committee, his family runs the risk of being “eternally damned and disgraced.”
Oloko asked the committee to name the person he impersonated and the records he falsified to deserve the negative appellations given to him.
The case has been adjourned till April 10 for hearing of the interlocutory injunction.