Lekki LCDA Brokers Peace Over Onise Of Ise Succession, Urges Stakeholders To Respect Court Course of

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The Lekki Native Council Growth Space (LCDA) has intervened within the lingering dispute over the vacant stool of the Onise of Ise, convening a mediation and reconciliation assembly that ended with a renewed dedication by stakeholders to take care of peace and permit the courts to find out the substantive points surrounding the succession.

The mediation session, organised by the Various Dispute Resolution (ADR) Division of the Authorized Unit of Lekki LCDA, was held on June 10, 2026, on the council secretariat in Lagos to handle safety issues arising from disagreements over the number of a brand new conventional ruler for Ise Neighborhood.

The assembly was chaired by the Government Chairman of Lekki LCDA, Hon. (Engr.) Rasaki Bamidele Kasali, and attended by the Council Supervisor, Mr. Asokere Sejuro, Deputy Director of Authorized Companies, Mrs. Afolake Fumilayo Senami Roberts, conventional rulers, representatives of the 4 ruling homes, kingmakers, {and professional} mediators.

Talking on the opening of the session, Mrs. Roberts mentioned the council convened the assembly in step with its statutory accountability to advertise peace, public order and communal concord following reviews from safety companies, conventional establishments, neighborhood leaders and residents indicating rising rigidity over the succession to the Onise of Ise stool.

This mediation was convened solely to advertise dialogue, scale back rigidity and protect peace in Ise Neighborhood. It isn’t supposed to find out authorized rights or intrude with issues already earlier than the court docket,” she mentioned.

She confused that the mediation was not supposed to find out authorized rights or intrude with pending court docket proceedings, significantly Go well with No. ID/107169CM/2026 between Prince Taibu Adewale Ogunbanjo and one other towards the Legal professional-Basic and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, and 4 others.

In response to her, the goals of the assembly have been to encourage dialogue amongst stakeholders, scale back rigidity inside the neighborhood, promote reconciliation and protect peace pending the dedication of the matter by the court docket.

Nevertheless, the council famous that it had acquired a number of petitions and correspondences from members of the Okuoye Ruling Home nominating totally different people for the stool, together with Prince Barr Babatunde Ekindayo Esualana, Prince Ibrahim Adebowale Saliu and Prince Seun Ahmed Owoseni.

Stakeholders expressed concern that the existence of a number of nominees had raised uncertainty and heightened rigidity inside the neighborhood.

Questions have been additionally requested over the absence of documentary proof, together with minutes of the assembly purportedly held to appoint a candidate, with a number of individuals sustaining that such information have been essential to show compliance with customary and procedural necessities.

Some members of the Okunoye Ruling Home additional challenged the method by which Prince Ibrahim Adebowale Saliu reportedly emerged because the nominee, alleging that the train lacked broad session and didn’t mirror the consensus of the household.

Equally, Adekunle Biobaku, Esq., PP: LAW PHARM LP. and solicitors to Head and Principal members of Adegoroye Royal Household in a petition dated thirteenth April 2026 challenged the “purported number of one MR. IBRAHIM SANGODEYI SALIU because the Oba Onise of Ise Elect.

The misconceived reliance on the declaration made below Part 6 (2) of Obas and Chiefs Regulation Cap 138, Legal guidelines of Lagos State of Nigeria, 1994 Regulating Choice to the Stool of Onise of Ise in Epe Local Government Space; Authorized on the sixteenth day of August, 1999 and Registered on the 18th day of August, 1999 is claimed to be the “basic distortion of historical past and customary regulation, together with the wrongful creation and structuring of ruling homes in relation to the Onise of Ise Chieftaincy.”

This matter, the petitioners averred “raises grave points affecting customary regulation, historic info, fairness and public order.”

In response to them, “The cumulative impact of the above is that non-royal lineages have been elevated to royal standing, a single lineage has been break up into three for benefit and the reliable royal household has been marginalised and positioned at a drawback. It is a clear violation of the native regulation and customized governing the stool.

“And the purported emergence of Mr. Ibrahim Sangodeyi Saliu is subsequently primarily based on an inapplicable declaration, based on a distorted ruling home construction, opposite to customary regulation and historic actuality and is consequently extremely vires, illegal, null, void and of no impact in any respect.”

They nonetheless, demand the “Nullification of the purported number of Mr. Ibrahim Sangodeyi Saliu as Oba Onise of Ise and “Affirmation of the Adegoroye Royal Household as the only reliable ruling home to the Oba Onise of Ise Stool.”

The case which is now earlier than the Excessive Court Of Lagos State within the Epe Judicial Division with everlasting swimsuit quantity EPD/15252GCMW/2026 has Prince Alhaji R. Ogunbajo Adegoroye; Prince Adefowope Adenupebi Adegoroye; Prince Adebola Nureni Shittu Adegoroye; Prince Adelaja Salisu Adegoroye (Suing for themselves and on behalf of the Adegoroye Royal Household of Ise Kingdom) and the Legal professional-Basic of Lagos State; the Commissioner, Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Growth, Lagos State; the Government Chairman, Lekki Native Council Growth Space; the Government Chairman, Epe Local Government Space. Defendants; Mr. Ibrahim Sangodeyi Saliu; Mr. Alidu Ligali (For himself and on behalf of Okunoye Household of Ise), Mr. Onti Adebisi Simon (For himself and on behalf of Olukoko Household of Ise); Alhaji H. I. Quadri (For himself and on behalf of Shebitan Household of Ise) as defendants.

The case has nonetheless been adjourned to Thursday twenty ninth October, 2026.

In the meantime, different stakeholders raised points relating to the interpretation and validity of the extant Chieftaincy Declaration, however the council declined to touch upon these issues as a result of they’re already earlier than the court docket.

Representatives of the Olukoko Ruling Home clarified that they weren’t laying declare to the vacant stool however attended the mediation to assist peace, stability and due course of inside the neighborhood.

Addressing the gathering, the Government Chairman and the normal rulers counseled individuals for his or her peaceable conduct and urged all events to put the unity, peace and cultural heritage of Ise Neighborhood above private pursuits.

“No particular person curiosity must be allowed to jeopardize the peace and unity of Ise Neighborhood. We urge all stakeholders to permit lawful processes to take their course,” Chairman Kasali mentioned.

The royal fathers additionally appealed for restraint, reminding stakeholders that the credibility of conventional establishments is determined by public confidence as a lot as customized and regulation.

“The legitimacy of any conventional establishment rests not solely on regulation and customized but in addition on the arrogance and acceptance of the individuals. Dialogue and restraint stay important,” the normal rulers mentioned.

The council additional urged stakeholders to keep away from inflammatory statements, acts of provocation and all types of self-help that would escalate tensions in the neighborhood.

On the finish of the assembly, the council reaffirmed its neutrality, stating that it might not decide the validity of any nomination or candidate for the stool.

“The council stays impartial on the chieftaincy dispute and can proceed to assist each lawful effort geared toward sustaining peace and safety,” Kasali added.

Stakeholders have been unanimously urged to take care of peace, proceed dialogue the place obligatory, and pursue all grievances by lawful channels whereas awaiting the result of the pending litigation.

In a mediation report signed by chartered mediators David Kupolati and C.N. Nga, the panel noticed that though divergent views remained over the succession course of, stakeholders demonstrated a collective dedication to preserving peace and respecting judicial proceedings.

In response to the report, the mediation achieved its quick goal of fostering dialogue, lowering rigidity and securing commitments from all events to chorus from violence, intimidation and any conduct able to disrupting public peace in Ise Neighborhood whereas the authorized course of runs its course.