A monarch in Osun State, Oba Mukaila Adebisi, has petitioned the Nigeria Police Force to investigate an attempt by some individuals to force his demotion using a forged government document.
Oba Adebisi, the Oloke of Okeolooru, who was recently promoted to a Part II Chief by Governor Ademola Adeleke after the approval of the State Executive Council, alleged that some persons within the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs colluded with some traditional rulers in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of the state to cause his demotion.
A petition written by his counsel, Daud Akinloye, addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone XI, in Osogbo and dated November 4, 2025, stated that the said forged document was produced to force the government to reverse his promotion.
According to him, the conspiracy has further led to threats to his life, intimidation, and acts capable of breaching public peace within the community.
“On the 15th day of September, 2025, after successfully completing the procedure highlighted under the Chief’s Law of Osun State, 2002, to be promoted to Part II Chieftain, the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, based on the approval of the Government of Osun State at the Executive Council Meeting of Friday, 12th day of September, 2025, effected the promotion.
“That while on the 16th day of September, 2025, our client was presented with the Staff of Office at the Ministry of Local Government for the appointment to be publicly celebrated and appreciated. While the appointment was sent to the Ministry of Information and was gazetted on the 17th day of September, 2025.
“That based on the rumour received on the 23rd day of September, 2025, that a traditional ruler within the domain was jubilating that our client’s appointment and elevation had been set aside, our client promptly wrote a letter dated the 23rd day of September, 2025, to caution and restrain the officials of the Ministry of Local Government from doing acts in violation of the Chief’s Law of Osun State and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended) in attending to complaints that might have arisen from the appointment and elevation of our client.
“By this letter, the rumour was confirmed that the Government of Osun State is determined to unscrupulously but illegally set aside the appointment and elevation of our client and would stop at nothing in this unholy determination. Our client thereby engaged the services of Messrs Daud Akinloye to enforce the fundamental right of our client to fair hearing before the appointment and elevation could be properly set aside under Section 20(3) of the Chief’s Law of Osun State.
“We therefore, based on the above facts chronicled, request your good offices to deploy your officers and launch a thorough investigation into the matter with a view to finding and bringing the culprits to book on the alleged offence involving some officials and staff of the Osun State Government conspiring with a traditional ruler occasioning threat to the life of our client, intimidation, conduct likely to cause a breach of peace in Ikirun community, conspiracy to forge and impersonate the decision extract of the Executive Council of Osun State Government under the able leadership of Mr Governor (His Excellency, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke) to unscrupulously, fraudulently, and illegally remove our client from office under the Chief’s Law of Osun State, Criminal Code, and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended), with complete disregard to natural justice and rule of law to reverse the appointment of our client,” the petition added.