OBA EMMANUEL ADEBOWALE ADEBAYO V. CHIEF JULIUS ADEDURO OKEYA

AHMAD OLAREWAJU BELGORE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Ekiti State High Court of Justice, holden at Emure-Ekiti (Hereinafter referred to as (The trial Court) contained in the Judgment of L. O. Ogundana, J, delivered on the 26th day of June, 2014 whereby he declared the removal from office of the claimant (Now, The Respondent) by the defendant (Now, The Appellant) as being illegal, unlawful, null, void and of no legal consequence whatsoever after having declared that the appellant lacked the legal capacity to unilaterally and without recourse to the Executive Council of Ekiti State or the Governor of Ekiti State to remove or depose the respondent as the Baale of Eporo as purportedly done in Exhibit??E.

Three of the four reliefs sought by the respondent, viz:

4. AN ORDER setting aside and/or nullifying the Defendant?s purported removal or deposition of the Plaintiff as theBaale of Eporo as contained in his letter dated 3rd day of D…