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Court sacks ex-RCCG Pastor and Soun of Ogbomoso, Ghandi Olaoye

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The newly installed monarch of Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Oba Ghandi Olaoye, a former pastor of one of the parishes of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in America, has been sacked from the throne barely two months of his ascension.

An Oyo State High Court handed down the verdict on Wednesday while ruling in a suit filed by Prince Kabir Laoye of another ruling house, alleging foul play in the process that led to the emergence of Ghandi as the new Soun of Ogbomoso.

Kabir had approached the court to nullify the process and order the commencement of a new process for the selection of a new traditional ruler.

Consequently, the court had directed the Oyo State Government not to announce anyone as the new Soun until the determination of the suit.

The court sitting in Ogbomoso, had reserved judgment until Wednesday, October 25.

Persecondnews recalls that in violation of the court order, Oyo State Government on September 8, 2023, announced Ghandi Laoye as the new Soun and was installed as the new Soun.

Delivering his judgment in the suit on Wednesday, Justice Adedokun said the selection process and emergence of Laoye was illegal.

The Judge ordered Ogbomosho kingmakers to go back and start the fresh selection of a new king.

The Chairman of the Screening Committee for the Laoye Ruling House in Ogbomoso, Chief Abdulwahab Laoye, had denied the claim that the family chose Ghandi, a pastor with the RCCG to fill the stool.

The stool became vacant following the demise of Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, in December 2021, at the age of 95 years.

Ghandi had said during press interviews that God told him to go for the throne and leave His congregation and also claimed that the General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye gave him the go ahead.

 

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