● Rights group alleges fraud, calls for thorough, credible investigation
A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has alleged that the Osun State
Government installed a deposed monarch, Taiwo Abdulrasaq Adegboye with forged documents in aid of his selection.
The group has, therefore, called on the State Governor, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, to ensure a thorough and credible investigation into the alleged forgery.
The group alleged that the deposed monarch, Taiwo Adegboye, was also
appointed and subsequently installed with the obsolete, repealed, outdated, and revoked 1957, instead of subsisting 1979 Registered Chieftaincy Declaration; and in flagrant disobedience to Court Orders in Suit Numbers: HED/26/2020 and HOS/84/2020 respectively by referring
to the Supreme Court per Rhodes-Vavour( JSC, as he then was) in the case of Chief Ujile D. Ngere &1Or V. Chief Job Williams Okuruket “X1V” & 3Ors (2014) 11NWLR pg.173 para G-H.
It added that the 1979 Registered Alawo of Awo Chieftaincy Declaration was used to install immediate past Alawo of Awo, the late Oba Musa Olatunbosun from Akinsilo Ruling House/Compound, Awo, saying that any installation done with outdated and revoked 1957 Chieftaincy Declaration was unlawful, illegal, null and void per Supreme Court of Nigeria in SC.19/1997.
It would be recalled that Taiwo Adegboye was installed as Alawo of Awo
illegally on 13th of September, 2021, by former Governor Gboyega Oyetola without following due process of law and Adegboye was a product of fraudulent process, flagrant disobedience to Court Orders, fake and forged selection documents.
The rights group further alleged that former Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s government accepted the forgery and fake documents with revoked declaration for illegal installation of Taiwo Adegboye as new Alawo, claiming that Adegboye was a strong member of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Egbedore Local Government area of the State.
But the Court of Appeal, Akure Judicial Division, in its judgment, dated
8th day of August, 2022, where Taiwo Adegboye was an Appellant in
Appeal N0:CA/AK/58/2021, dethroned Adegboye as Alawo of Awo by declaring him as an impostor and to stop parading himself as new Alawo henceforth.
The group said that the Appeal Court judgment delivered by the three
courageous jurists of the Appellate Court, Akure, was clear and sound without any ambiguity, but that Adegboye refused to obey with the support of the State Government, particularly, the Government of Gboyega Oyetola by protecting him (Adegboye) in flagrant disobedience to the Appeal Court judgment by referring to the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the
case of Ezekiel Hart v Ezekiel —-Hart, 222 Wali, JSC(as he then was).
The group likened the forgery act of Taiwo Adegboye with the recent Sixteen(16) years old Mmesoma Ejike, the Student of Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Urugu, Nnewi, Anambra State and 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate who falsified and manipulated her result by jacking it up from (249 to 362) to outsmart other students in the national examination conducted by Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
It argued further against the usage of forged selection documents for the installation of Taiwo Adegboye as the new Alawo by referring to the Supreme Court of Justice in SC. 1/2020 on Appeal N0:
CA/A/1053/2019 on FHC/ABJ/CS/1101/2019- PDP & 2Ors. V. Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo & 3Ors.
The CHRSJ’s letter dated Tuesday, 6th of December, 2022 was signed by its Assistant General Secretary (AGS), Pastor Micheal Agaasi. Copies were made available to newsmen on Wednesday.
Pastor Agaasi urged the State Government to obey the Court of Appeal judgment on the subject matter as contained in the Supreme Court decision in the case of Abacha V. Fawehinmi (2002)2 SCNQR 489 at 546 thus,” ….. It is the law that a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, no matter if it seems palpable null and void, unattractive or unsupportable, remains good law and uncompromisingly binding until set aside by a superior court of competent jurisdiction.”
It highlighted the particulars of forgery against Taiwo Adegboye, such as different thumbprint impressions and signatures of the Mogaji/Head, Alhaji (Prince) Abdulkareem Adegboye and Secretary, Alhaji (Prince) Abidoye Hamzat Gboyelade / Prince (Alhaji) Hamzat Abidoye / Hamsat
Abidoye of Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo as contained in Taiwo Adegboye’s Certified True Copy(CTC) of Expression of Interest Form N0:000000114 to fill the vacant stool of Alawo.
Other forged documents are the Certified True Copy of Selection minutes credited to Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo, dated 24th of August, 2020, was forged in favour of Taiwo Adegboye with another
thumbprint impression and signature of the Mogaji and Secretary of Abioye Ruling House/ Compound, Awo, Osun State; the Certified True Copy of the Covering Letter with Reference N0: ELG.396/T/28B, dated
24th August, 2020, and signed by one Mrs. Olabimtan F. Abiola, the Council Manager for Chairman, Egbedore Local Government, Awo, Osun State with attachment of Selection Minutes; the Certified True Copy of Adegboye’s Exhibit B03 tendered in Suit N0:HED/26/2020 and Certified True Copy of Bond to Prosecute Appeal with N0:CA/AK/58/2021on Suit N0: HOS/84/2020 respectively.
Pastor Agaasi submitted that this was a clearly established case of sufficient evidential proofs of forgery against Taiwo Adegboye, beyond a reasonable doubt, stating that “Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo under the headship of Alhaji (Prince) Abdulkareem Adegboye, did not at anytime and/or anywhere call for any meeting whatsoever on the acclaimed (24th) August, 2020, where some of the officials of Egbedore
Local Government, Awo, claimed to be observers without any evidence of
video clip or photographs to show where the sons and daughters of Abioye Ruling House/Compound, Awo, met, to choose Taiwo Adegboye as the Abioye Ruling House’s candidate to fill the vacant stool of Alawo.” (with report by 247Ureports)
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