An Assistant Director of Protocol in the Office of the Governor of Oyo State, Wasiu Ademola Adeniyi has dragged the governor, Abiola Ajimobi and three others before the Ibadan Division of the National Industrial Court (NIC), alleging wrongful retirement from the service of the state government.

An employee of the Oyo State Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), Adeniyi was seconded to the Office of the Governor to serve as the Assistant Director of Protocol on the request of the former governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala at the inception of his administration in 2007.He remained in that office until his compulsory retirement from the service on the 15th July, 2013, a decision he has gone to the Industrial Court to challenge.

According to the suit number NIC/IB/83/2013 instituted by Ayo Faleti on his behalf, and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday,  Ajimobi was joined in the suit by the Attorney General of the state, Yanju Adegbite, who signed the purported letter of compulsory retirement and the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State, his original employer.

In his writs of summon, Adeniyi wants the court to declare that the purported

compulsory retirement/termination of his employment by the 3rd and 4th defendants,acting on the instruction and authority of the 1st defendant vide 3rd and 4

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defendants' letter of 15th July, 2013 is wrongful, illegal and of no effect whatsoever.He also wanted the court to hold that he is still a lawful employee and still in the service of the 1st and 4th defendants as the 4th defendant's Assistant Director of Programmes, notwithstanding the defendants' letter of compulsory retirement dated 15th July, 2013 given to him.

The claimant prayed the court for an order restoring him to his post and office as the Assistant Director of Programmes with the 4th defendant and to all his rights and privileges attaching there. Adeniyi wants the court to order the defendants to pay all his arrears of salary, allowances and other emoluments /entitlements due to him from July, 2013 till the date of his reinstatement by the court and thereafter full salary, allowances and other entitlements due to him as an employee of the defendants on monthly basis.