Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has directed the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to take action on the jailed Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede.

Adeleke made the order yesterday during the State Executive Council meeting.

In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Barrister Kolapo Alimi, the governor described the development as ugly, calling for urgent action on the matter.

The statement indicates that, “The Governor further instructed the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to take action on the ugly development at Ipetumodu where the King was recently jailed in the United States of America”.

Recall that US District Judge Christopher A. Boyko ordered the monarch to “serve three years of supervised release after imprisonment and pay $4,408,543.38 in restitution.”

US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, in a statement on August 26, 2025, said Oloyede led a conspiracy to exploit COVID-19 emergency loan programmes created for struggling businesses.

Since the judgment, uneasy calm has pervaded the town, with the princes insisting that the state government should decide on replacing Oba Oloyede.