The Olushi Onigbesa Royal Family has accused the Lagos State Government of supporting rival claimants to the Oshodi traditional stool and attempting to install another Oba, despite a series of court decisions that the family says have left a tribunal recommendation in its favour intact.
The allegation is contained in court documents filed before the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, in Suit No. ID/1457GCMW/2026, instituted by Prince Yaya Oseni-Agedegudu and Kabiru Eeyantan on behalf of the royal family, through their counsel, Omoniyi Akinmola.
The defendants in the suit are the Lagos State governor; attorney general and commissioner for justice; the commissioner for local government, chieftancy affairs and rural development; Chairman Oshodi/Isolo Local Government Area, Chief Maroofdeen Oshodi; Chief Abdulrasak Oshodi, Hakeem Adesope, (for themselves and on behalf of Oshodi family of Oshodi Palace, Oshodi Court, Oshodi Street, Epetedo, Lagos Island), Chief Biliamin Akinola, and Adekunle Thomas, (for themselves and on behalf of the Arota family of Oshodi), as first to sixth defendants.
The claimants ask the court to declare them the family entitled to produce and continue to produce the Oba of Oshodi, and to restrain the Lagos State Government, its agencies, and the rival Oshodi Tapa and Arota families from recognising or installing another person as the traditional ruler.
