Deposed Onido of Ido, in Ido Local Government of Oyo State, Chief Tajudeen Adelani Akinola Agura, has prayed the Oyo state High Court 13 sitting in Ibadan to grant him leave to call additional witness in legal battle between him and the new Onido, Oba Gbolagade Muritala Babalola.
Agura who was last year deposed by the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji dragged the new Onido installed by the Olubadan and fourteen other parties before the court in a case with suit number 1/735/13, over alleged encroachment on 26,000 acres of land.
In the suit, the former Onido, who is currently challenging his removal by the Olubadan, insists that the parcel of land is a family land, and not belonging to the Onido stool.
At the resumed sitting of the court on the matter on Tuesday, counsel to Agura , Atinuke M. Akindele, from Lasun Sanusi Chambers, brought an application seeking to call one Mr. Lamidi Idris Adisa, as an additional witness to interpret certain pages of Iweitan Ibadan, authored by King Akinyele, 6th edition.
The claimant/applicant is also praying the court to grant an order deeming the written statement on oath of Mr. Lamidi Idris Adisa as properly filed and served.
The former Onido’s counsel told Justice G.A. Sunmonu of the court that the application was brought pursuant to section 210 of the Evidence Act, 2011, urging the court to grant it.
After listening to arguments from counsels to other parties in the matter, Justice Sunmonu adjourned the sitting to November 27, 2017, for ruling on the application.
Packaged by Ojo Peter
