The Omiwole Ruling House has been declared as the next royal family to present candidate to the stool of Obalufon of Sepeteri.
Making this pronouncement recently in a ruling was a high court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Justice Ezekiel Ajayi said the Chieftaincy Declaration made pursuant to section 4(2) of the Chiefs Law of 1957, approved on 26th October, 1959, remained valid and applicable to the people of Sepeteri.
Prince Omiwole Muraina and Prince Omiwole Moruff, appeared in court as claimants and on behalf of Omiwole Oladosun Ruling House, while the Governor of Oyo State; the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters; the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice; the Chairman, Saki East Local Government; the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Aderemi 111; Chief Ganiyu Olaniyan; and others were defendants in the matter.
Ajayi held that the three ruling houses that are recognised in Sepeteri in line with the chieftaincy declaration of 1959, are the Omiwole, Adesola and Alao Alatise ruling houses.
The judge granted the order quashing and setting aside the letter written on behalf of the fourth defendant dated 26th July, 2013 by Prince A. O. Apanpa ref. no SELG/T/112/88 to the family head of Omiwole Ruling House of Sepeteri (name not indicateed).
The letter requested the Omiwole family to meet and nominate candidate to fill the vacant stool of Obalufon of Sepeteri, having been wrongly delivered and not directed to a particular family head.
The judge granted an order directing the first four defendants to write another letter to Prince Omiwole Oyinloye Imuraina, the head of Omiwole Ruling House.
The letter directed them to meet and nominate the candidate to fill the vacant stool of Obalufon in consonance with the Sepeteri chieftaincy declaration.
