Kehinde Akinyemi
29 June 2008
Abeokuta — The people of Yewa North local government area of Ogun State are set to declare a legal practitioner, (names withheld), persona non grata in the council following his persistent petitions emanating from his chamber against natives of the area.
The latest of such petitions was the one embattled lawyer wrote against the local government chairman, Evangelist Titus Eweje, copy was made available to Oodua Trust on Tuesday.
The people who have formed a coalition under the aegis Time to Send Sanni Out of Ayetoro (TSSOA) have vowed to ensure that the lawyer is no longer welcome as all efforts to bring truce have failed.
According to the representative of the group, Chief Ola Akinfenmiwa, "The actions of the lawyer in the last two years have become an embarrassment to the entire Ayetoro community and we can longer accommodate such particularly when all entreaties had been made to bring peace."
Akinfenmiwa said that in the last two years, no fewer than 10 petitions had been written by [the lawyer] against those who by dint of hard work have become eminent personalities of Ayetoro. "Initially we thought he had a good cause in doing it, but upon investigations we discovered that [the lawyer] is doing this to make Ayetoro a subject of ridicule as all his claims were often found to be untrue and unsubstantiated," he said.
He added, "Thereafter, we decided to meet him to find out why he has embarked on this destructive mission against his own brothers and sisters. But we discovered that he was after getting what he does not work for politically in the council."
Akinfenmiwa said another petition was written in April against the council chairman, and again there was no evidence to back up the allegation, "hence our resolve to declare him persona non grata as we cannot continue with his evil agenda."
When the Oodua Trust visited the local government secretariat at Ayetoro, the council chairman said he had done everything possible to bring back the lawyer, "but he chooses to do what he is doing but I wish him well."
Efforts to get the embattled lawyer were abortive as he was said to be unavailable.
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