The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, has been summoned to appear before the State High Court sitting in Oyo Town in a suit filed by a group of princes from the ancient town.

The claimants, Ladigbolu Adegboyega, Owoade Tesleem, Adeyemi Adesina and Adeyemi Adebayo, instituted the case under suit number HOY/18/2026, seeking several declarations and injunctive orders against the monarch.

In the writ filed before the court, the princes are asking for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Alaafin, either personally or through his servants and associates, from attending or participating in events they describe as “not befitting the status of a symbolic traditional head of the Yoruba race.”

They are also seeking an order restraining him from acting in any traditional or official capacity that would render him subordinate or inferior to any other Oba in Yorubaland.