Ekiti Community Hails Supreme Court Judgment On Alara Stool

The people of Aramoko Ekiti, the headquarters of Ekiti West local government area of Ekiti State, have hailed the Supreme Court judgment in the legal tussle over the Alara stool of the community.

The community said the verdict had laid to rest the 16-year legal tussle surrounding the enthronement of the late Oba Adegoke Olu-Adeyemi, as the Alara of Aramoko Ekiti.

The traditional ruler in question, the late Oba Olu-Adeyemi, died on August 9, 2025, and has since been buried according to Islamic rites in consensus with the community.

The president of the Aramoko Development Association (ADA), Babatunde Allen Aluko, commenting on the judgment on behalf of the community, stated that the long and tortuous journey had taken the better part of the last 16 years, during which Aramoko was essentially brought to a standstill.

Aluko said, “The judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, which dismissed the appeal by Prince Olusegun Aderemi in relation to the tussle for the Alara of Aramoko-Ekiti throne for lacking in merit, has brought calm to the town”.

He said there is no doubt that the Appellant has utilised the opportunities available to seek redress. Still, the news of the judgment was received with unlimited joy and excitement within and outside the town.

The ADA President said, “The resulting calmness should usher in a period of reconciliation and unification. Aramoko is one and shall remain one in peace and progress. I wish to appeal to all and sundry to cease further tussles, engage peacefully and turn the page so that Aramoko can move forward”.

He appreciated Mr Kabir Akingbolu, who, at the instance of Chief Ademola Adetifa, Mr Seyi Arowosebe, representing ADA, and Mr Ahmed Lawal, an indigene of the town, were the two delegates from Aramoko Lawyers at the Supreme Court, for their support and steadfastness.

The Apex Court, in a judgment read in open court by Justice Idris Mohammed on behalf of four other justices, dismissed the appeal filed by Prince Segun Aderemi, challenging the late Alara’s enthronement, as lacking in merit, last Friday morning.

The apex Court went further to hold that the Appellant, Prince Aderemi, has failed woefully to make a special case that would warrant the Supreme Court to meddle, change, or overturn the concurrent findings of the two courts below, that is, the Court of Appeal and the High Court. The late monarch and Prince Aderemi are both from the same Arakale Ruling House.

The Court held that it had examined the case and found no merit in the case filed by Prince Aderemi, adding that the Supreme Court had affirmed the judgment of the High Court, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal, as unimpeachable on firm legal grounds and therefore stands.

According to the Justices, the decision of the lower courts is sound and unimpeachable, and for that reason, the appeal was dismissed.

With this judgment, the tussle over the Obaship in Aramoko-Ekiti has come to a complete close. It would be recalled that under the law, once somebody has been made an Oba, and he dies on the throne, the tenure has lapsed by effusion of time, so the Oba goes to another family under the principle of rotation.