The Oba-elect of Ikeja community in Lagos State,
Alhaji Samsondeen Adeleye, has raised the alarm over a plot by his detractors
to get him arrested and detained under a trumped-up charge so as to prevent his
installation by the outgoing administration of Governor Akinwumi Ambode.
The monarch-in-waiting, in a chat with journalists at
the weekend, accused one of his siblings of contriving an allegation bothering
on land grabbing against him, noting that apart from lands jointly sold by
their royal family, he had never single-handedly sold any land to anyone.
“My detractor in the family had connived with some
powerful people in the police circles to get me arrested for illegally selling
a land which I know nothing.
“I gathered that they will at any moment invite me
to the Police Criminal Investigation Department at Alagbon, Lagos, from where I
will be transferred to Abuja to prevent me from becoming the Oba of Ikeja.
“They said they would arrest me in respect of a
land sold whereas I did not sell any land to anybody. Apart from lands sold
jointly by the royal family, count me out of selling a family land behind other
members,” he explained.
Adeleye said he had contacted his lawyer to reach
out to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, “to help me prevent this act of
injustice from taking place.
“I know they are doing this to prevent my imminent
installation by the state government.”
Ikeja has been without a monarch since October
2014, following the passage of its traditional ruler, Oba Rauf Matemi, Amore 1.
In December 2014, the Ikeja Body of Kingmakers,
headed by the late former Deputy Governor of the state, Chief Rafiu Jafojo,
picked Adeleye as Oba-elect and forwarded his name to the Ikeja local council
but the state government has yet to install himever since.
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