No monarch has right to paramountcy claim, says Ondo govt | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Ondo State Government has said that no monarch in the state has the right to paramountcy claim, saying that supreme power is not part of the state’s law.

The state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Charles Titiloye, who stated this at a press conference in Akure yesterday, said that the immediate past administration under Dr. Olusegun Mimiko instituted a commission to attend to recognition, adjustment, upgrading and elevation of chieftaincy stools in the state.

Among the new stools are Olurokun of Irokun, Osolo of Isolo, Osowa of Ugboroko, while government accepted the recommendations on Akure and Arogbo-Ijaw High Chiefs that are classed as Grade ‘C’ Obas, and to receive staff of office soon. The attorney-general, however, said: “Government is in receipt of the recommendation of the commission on paramountcy of some traditional rulers in the state.

 

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