Rasheed Ladoja:

Former Governor of Oyo state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has declared that judgment nullifying the coronation of 21 new obas by Governor Abiola Ajimobi last year is ‘declarative’ which means it must be complied with, inspite of the appeal by the defendants.

Ladoja who spoke on a radio programme in Ibadan over the weekend said, “By the judgment, these people should cease to call themselves oba and should not be wearing their so-called crown or coronet. There was a picture of one of them sent to me from Kano State that he wore the coronets.

“I will ask my lawyer to call the attention of the court to the flouting of its judgment. They are acting in contempt of court. The governor, my younger brother (aburo), should have called them to order and ask them to desist from illegality. They can wear the coronet in their houses, after all they can be kings of their houses, but outside their homes.

“The court gave a declarative judgment which means that irrespective of the appeal filed by them, the judgment subsists until set aside by a court of higher jurisdiction. The court said the retired Justice Akintunde Boade-led Commission of Inquiry is unknown to law and does not exist. These so-called obas too do not exist in the eyes of the law. That judgment still stands,” he said.