THE GOVERNOR OF OYO STATE & ORS. V. OBA OLOLADE FOLAYAN

WALI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By an amended Writ of Summons, filed in the High Court of Justice of Oyo State holden at Ibadan, the present respondent as plaintiff, claimed against the present appellants as defendants as follows:-

"(1) Declaration that the appointment and proceedings of the Aboderin Commission of Enquiry are unconstitutional, irregular contrary to Natural Justice null and void and that all actions based on the findings are void and of no effect on the grounds that:

(a) The claim of precedence and the right to wear a beaded crown are not disputes within the context of the chiefs' law.

(b) The Commission of Enquiry was neither regularly appointed nor was the instrument of the purported appointment published as by law.

(c) There was no administering law under which the said Commission of Enquiry could have been appointed.

(d) The Commission did not and has not announced its decisions in public up till now; and

(e) The Commission did not act Judicially …