Nigeria: Ibadan Obas Kick Against Out-of-Court Settlement

22 November 2019

Ibadan — The last might have not been heard on the crisis rocking the Ibadan Traditional Council as the elevated High Chiefs in Ibadanland yesterday kicked against the Tuesday court judgement that stripped them of their crowns, describing the court process as shaving the head of a person in his absence.

The High Chiefs as the direct beneficiaries of the law that promoted them and Baales to Obas on August 27, 2017 said the out of court settlement option which the judgement was premised was without their inputs and there's no way they could accept such, disclosing that they have briefed their lawyer on the matter.

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