The Iwaye Dodo Ruling House of Ipokia has reportedly petitioned the Ogun State Police command and other security agencies over alleged threat to life by one Bashir Olubi-Sodiq and others.
The petition which was sent to the police command and also addressed to the State Security Service, SSS and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC was premised on a ruling allegedly barring Mr. Yisa Olusola Olaniyan from parading himself as the Oba-Elect in the chieftaincy tussle for the position of the Onipokia of Ipokia, in Ogun State.
The petition signed by the representatives of Asade, Adekanbi, Okeleye and Oteni Royal Families of the Dodo Ruling House of Ipokia accused the agents of Olaniyan of threatening to allegedly unleash mayhem and assassinate eligible members of the Iwaye Dodo Ruling House to stop them from pursuing their rights for the position of the Onipokia of Ipokia.
Excerpts from the petition read thus; “In an attempt to actualize their diabolic motive, Bashir Olubi Sodiq a.k.a Saolas sent a message via the Ipokia Way forward WhatsApp group that all members of the group should meet him at Ipokia roundabout on the 22nd of October, 2019, for undisclosed reasons”.
“Since the declaration, members of the affected families have been in a state of anxiety. By this message, we envisage that the unlawful assembly is aimed at instigating the entire members and the likes against the smooth sitting of the State High Court, Ipokia on the ongoing Onipokia of Ipokia Obaship title litigation which has been fixed for hearing on the 22nd of October 2019.”
The petitioners alleged further that “we have equally heard severally from reliable sources that the convener of the meeting had concluded plans to ambush and kidnap representatives of the members of the Asade, Adekanbi and Oteni Royal families to prevent them from making appearances in the court for obvious reasons. It should be placed on record that Bashir Sadiq took this clandestine move as a result of the loss of the preliminary objections of the defendants in the ongoing suit”.
“In fact, we have been severally confronted by thugs affiliated to Bashir Olubi Sadiq who boasted that they have the order to assassinate any marked member of the family.”
Meanwhile, the Iwaye Dodo Ruling House said as law abiding citizens, they have refused to take the law into their hands and that is why they are calling on the security agencies to protect them and their families from the threat.
-Oyin Princess