An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, has issued a summons to Kemi Alao-Akala, the wife of the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala. She is instructed to appear in court within 30 days.
The summons is related to a legal dispute over the estate of her late husband. It was granted following an ex-parte motion brought by the counsel for the claimant, Toyin Alao-Aderinto, against Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi.
The claimant alleges that the defendants obtained a letter of administration over the late governor’s estate without proper consent, which raises concerns about the mismanagement of the estate.
The court has directed Kemi Alao-Akala and her co-defendant to respond and appear within the specified time.
The lawsuit, marked I/443/2024, is challenging the actions of the defendants, Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi. They have been accused of illegally obtaining a letter of administration from the state High Court on October 6, 2022, in connection with late Alao-Akala’s estate, mismanaging the deceased’s assets and property, and excluding the claimant/applicant from benefitting from the distribution of the assets of the estate of late Alao-Akala, the claimant’s father.
The first daughter of the deceased, Oluwatoyin Alao-Aderinto, is seeking the leave of the court to declare as illegal, null and void a letter of administration illegally obtained by Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi from the registry of the state High Court. Additionally, she is seeking an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, including Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, from continuing to sell or dispose of any asset (real or personal) belonging to the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala.
It will be recalled that Toyin Alao-Aderinto, in a letter dated August 16, 2023, signed by Dipo Olasope, SAN, principal partner, Dipo Olasope and co., and addressed to the duo of Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Akala, had stated that the “Letter of Administration over the estate of the late Alao-Akala was illegally obtained by the duo to the exclusion of Toyin, being the first child and who by law should be one of the administrators, except she decline to act.”
According to a letter from the law firm of Dipo Olasope and co, “Toyin, who is the first child of late Alao-Akala, has been sidelined in the scheme of things. Olamide, her mother and two other siblings, including Olamiju Alao-Akala, who is a serving House of Representatives member, Kemi, who was first lady during the tenure of Alao-Akala as Governor and her son, Olamikunle, are working in unison to appropriate the estate of the deceased among the six of them, thereby disenfranchising other legitimate children of Alao-Akala from benefiting from the estate of their late father.”
The letter also revealed that the defendants, Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alao, after approaching the probate registry of the state High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan, to process the illegal letter of administration, without the consent of Toyin, who is the first child of the family, dealt wrongly and illegally with the assets of the deceased Alao-Akala.
A 21-day notice was issued to the defendants to amend the letter of administration to accommodate Toyin and correct other anomalies therein, while another seven days’ notice was issued as required by law before the claimant approached the Court to seek legal redress.
That the claimant, being the first biological daughter of late Adebayo Alao-Akala (deceased), is entitled to inherit and have an equal share (if not more) in the estate of late Adebayo Alao-Akala, who died intestate on January 12, 2022.
A declaration that the defendants have no right whatsoever to deny the claimant her bon-fide right(s), interest, and entitlement to the estate of late Adebayo Alao-Akala.
A declaration that the letter of administration granted to the defendants by the state High Court on October 6, 2022, in connection with late Adebayo Alao-Akala’s estate was fraudulently and illegally obtained and, therefore, illegal, null and void, among other reliefs sought from the court.
