BELGORE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is a chieftaincy matter about the head chief of Oro Ago in Ifelodun Local Government of Kwara State. The parties before us now were among those in the case at the trial High Court, and the Court of Appeal. Suffice here to mention that at the trial High Court the first defendant was Ifelodun Local Government and the 6th defendant, Oba Saliu Alebiosu the Olupo of Ajase-Ipo was the Chairman of Ifelodun Traditional Council. After the High Court judgment the said first and sixth defendants became passive participants, thus preferring to abide by whatever course the case took on appeals to the Court of Appeal and this Court.
The people of Oro Ago claim to come from Ketu, an Egba town now in the Republic of Benin, long before the colonial incursion broke Africa into colonies. The ruling families, according to both contesting parties to the stool of Oloro, descended from a single ancestor who had seven children. As a result of the prowes…