RULING HOUSE PETITIONS GOVERNOR ABIODUN OVER ALLEGED IMPOSTOR OF MONARCH
The alleged Bakare in a swift response when contacted said, ’there was never a time I was asked not to parade myself as Oba of my town, Abalabi. Olowu of Owu Kingdom created Oba for Abalabi over ten years ago, and I am the third to occupy that position. I have not receive any letter from government, not to parade myself as Oba’
The petition pointed out that the defiance is in contrast to the permissible statue that empowered the local government under Chief Law part 2 of Section 15a-iv of Ogun State, Customary Law, adding that, ’we are constraint to inform Your Excellency that Taofeek Biobaku Bakare has made himself an Emperor’
‘He did not only present himself as a King, he has constituted a stature, a machinery ostentated to appoint Baale of the neighbouring town, this is a dangerous precedent if not avert now, it will form a grandeur to any other person within Ogun State locality to allude and form a parallel prescribed authority to the function of Ogun State order of Ewekoro Local Government whose Abalabi kingdom is under its inherent jurisdiction’, the petition reads
‘Despite umpteenth letters and reference to Section 15a of Chief Law part 2 Ogun State Customary Law act, the local government has failed to act, this muteness ushered in all manners of contention from different folks which have no bearing to the legitimacy of the succession to the next throne of Abalabi Kingdom’’, the petition emphasized.
The ruling said the controversial monarch was earlier invited by the police with a warning to take to government directive of not parading himself as a tradition ruler, adding that, he was made to write undertaken, ’suffice to say that Taofeek has not yielded to the warning from the police nor adhere to the undertaken he made with them’
‘Very recently, your administration stopped him from building a palace in the community which was initiated on the 5th September, 2019; he was defiant to all avenues to stop him from parading himself as an Oba. The most recent action was borne out of Owu Day ceremony’
Penpushing also reports that, the ruling house forwarded copies of the petition to the State Commissioner of Police, Director of Department of Security Service (DSS), Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly and Permanent Secretary Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs
