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Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has declared the change of the name of the state to the “State of Osun” as illegal, null and void.
The ruling followed a case instituted by a human rights activist, Kanmi Ajibola, challenging the legality of the “State of Osun Land Use Charge Law”.
In his judgment which lasted more than one hour on Thursday, Justice Yinka Afolabi ruled that the law and its makers were unknown to the 1999 constitution.
He also chided the state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, for deliberately and singlehandedly renaming the state illegally contrary to the known norms and the Nigerian Constitution.
The judge also declared that the makers of the law, who are currently serving as members of the State House of Assembly, were not sworn in as members of the “State of Osun House of Assembly”, but as members of Osun State House of Assembly going by the seventh schedule of the constitution.
Court Declares ‘State Of Osun’ Illegal, Rebukes Aregbesola
