Awujale: Ogun reveals Fasengbuwa disaster, insists on due course of

The authorities additionally warned people and teams allegedly sponsoring media assaults and spreading disinformation to strain it over the succession course of to desist or face the total weight of the regulation.

The State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Oluwasina Ogungbade, SAN, said this in a press release on Wednesday, stressing that the federal government had acted with equity, restraint and in accordance with the Awujale Chieftaincy Declaration and the Obas and Chiefs Law of Ogun State, 2021.

Ogungbade, nonetheless, disclosed that the federal government needed to intervene when it found that the ruling home was working below three totally different household heads, with nomination kinds reportedly being bought for as a lot as ₦10 million.

He recalled that at a gathering with the household on November 6, 2025, the federal government suggested it to resolve its inner management disagreements, function below one recognised household head and discontinue the gathering of nomination charges.

According to him, the intervention yielded constructive outcomes, because the household subsequently agreed to function as one united ruling home, abolish candidature charges, refund funds already made by aspirants and expressed appreciation to the federal government.

He maintained that the federal government’s intervention was not meant to deprive the Fusengbuwa household of its entitlement however to make sure that the succession course of was carried out in an orderly, clear and legally acceptable method.

The Attorney-General defined that whereas the federal government revered the normal succession course of, it additionally had statutory tasks within the appointment and set up of conventional rulers, together with the authority to reject a nominated candidate the place the curiosity of fine governance so calls for.

He described latest media publications accusing the federal government of interference and bias as deceptive, alleging that some have been sponsored to create public hostility and exert undue strain on the federal government.

Ogungbade distinguished official criticism and advocacy from what he described as media blackmail and deliberate disinformation, warning that the federal government wouldn’t enable such actions to undermine its lawful tasks.

Citing Section 61 of the Criminal Law of Ogun State, he famous that illegal acts calculated to intervene with the free train of a governor’s official duties may appeal to a three-year jail time period.

He consequently cautioned publishers and people concerned within the dissemination of deceptive stories designed to intervene with the succession course of, warning that the federal government wouldn’t hesitate to pursue applicable authorized cures if the alleged actions persevered.

The authorities reaffirmed its dedication to making sure that the emergence of the subsequent Awujale displays the provisions of the regulation, the established conventional establishments of Ijebuland and the rules of equity and due course of.