The three sections of the family, through their lawyer, Abdulrahman Okunade, had petitioned Oba Windapo in a letter directed to the state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Adeleke Yekeen Adebayo. The letter was written on behalf of the heads of three families namely; Alhaji Ibrahim Dahunsi Ogunlabi, Chief Oladele Faniran and Moyinlorun Ajayi, as representatives of the Ogunlabi, Oladapo and Adegoke families respectively of Aareago’s Compound, Ara in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State.
The petitioners recalled that the grandfather of the Aareago family who was earlier referred to as Otun of Ara, had six children and that one died childless while the sixth child was a female. The letter read in part: “That the one named Lakunbi among the six children of Pa Idowu died without leaving behind any child of his. The 6th child (Iyelola) was a female who
