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WALTER SAMUEL NKANU ONNOGHEN, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in appeal No. CA/I/56/901 delivered by the Ibadan Division of the Court on the 8th day of May, 2000 in which the Court dismissed the appeal of appellant against the judgment of the High Court of Oyo State, Holden at Ife Judicial Division in suit No. HIF/99/87 delivered on the 9th day of May, 1990 granting the claims of the then plaintiffs and the counter claim of the 3rd, 4th and 7th defendants.
This appeal arose from a Chieftaincy dispute involving the IKIRE Stool.
The facts of the case include the following: One Kujelanyo shortened to "KUJE" was the original founder of the stool. He had four children initially through four wives. The children were Disamu who was the eldest; Lambeloye; Ladekan and Onisokan; that in his old age Kuje was given a new wife who later begot another son named Aketula whose partenity is said to have been in dispute as some of …