AREGBEOSULA AROWOLO & ANOR V. OBA S.A. AKAIYEJO II, THE OGOGA OF IKERE EKITI

UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Ekiti State High Court of Justice, Ikere-Ekiti, delivered by Hon. Justice D.O. Jegede on the 11th January, 2010, wherein the court dismissed the claims of the Appellants for want of cause of action and locus standi.

The Appellants as the Plaintiffs at the lower court instituted this action wherein they claimed against the Defendant now Respondent the following declaratory and injunctive reliefs as contained in paragraph 17 of their statement of claim, as follows:

a. A declaration that the Plaintiffs (Agbayan family) of Odo-Oja Quarters Ikere Ekiti is entitted to the Agbayan chieftaincy title of Ikere Ekiti.

b. A declaration that the continued refusal of the defendant to fix a date for installation of the plaintiffs' candidate for Agbayan chieftaincy despite repeated written and verbal demands is illegal, untraditional and an abandonment of duty.

c. An order of mandatory injunct…