The High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has issued an order, restraining the celebration of Oro Day, 2025, pending the pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
The court restrained the defendants, Oba Joel Olaniyi Titiloye Oyatoye and 20 others from their agents, privies, servants and anybody claiming authority through them from celebrating Oro Day 2025 and further making publication titled “Oro Day 2025/One year Coronation Anniversary” on Facebook or any social media platform pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice brought by the Oro Town Community.
Presiding judge, Justice M. Abdulgafar ordered a substituted service granted the interim order in a suit marked, and brought before it by Chief Simeon Olayioye, the Asanlu of Oro, on behalf of the Oro Community.
Justice Abdulgafar said that he granted the order after listening to the submission of counsel to the Claimant, O. J. Adeseko Esq. and counsel to the defendants, T.S. Alawode Esq.
The motion on notice for interlocutory injunction was subsequently fixed for 9th December, 2025.
In another case, the Ilorin High Court also granted an Application from Oro Town Community for a substituted service, after reported series of evasion, on Oba Joel Olaniyi Titiloye Oyatoye, Oloro of Oro District on him and his privies.
The court banned the use of Oro Kingdom on the monarch’s seal and restricted him to the use of Oro District’.
He was also restrained from awarding honorary titles, signposts and other related or allied title including all the towns in Oro District using Oro Kingdom as suffix to their names.