The Ogun State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs has been urged to resist pressure from some government functionaries and political office holders to install a non-indigene as the Oba of Ilamiro, an ancient town in Ado Odo Ota Local Government.

Speaking on behalf of the Ilamiro Descendants Union, Head of one of the royal families in the town, Chief Adele Alayan, alledged that the plot to impose a stranger on the town had begun with a letter dated January 20, and signed by the Director Of Chieftaincy Akinwunmi O, directing the Local Government to commence the process of selecting the candidate for the vacant stool of the Onilamiro of Ilamiro.

Alayan said the directive had prompted a meeting held on March 31 at the Local Government Secretariat with selected stakeholders to prepare ground for the selection, insisting that both the directive and the meeting were in contravention of a court order to stay action on any selection process for a new Oba for the town.”

Hand picking those to attend the meeting and shutting out many other stakeholders itself indicated the mischief that was at play” the high chief added.

He advised those desperate to make the stranger a king to wait for the obaship stool of his community,Oto Ijaniki in Lagos State to become vacant and then use their influence to install him there, stressing ” the man in question has a strong link with some top government functuonaries and political office holders .