The Court of Appeal, Akure Division, has sacked the Jegun of Idepe, Okitipupa, Oba Michael Adetoye Obanuga.
Consequently, the court has ordered him to vacate the throne with immediate effect.
It also directed that a fresh selection process which must exclude the sacked Monarch and the Ruling House which produced him be initiated by the government immediately.
The judgment was in line with an earlier verdict of an Ondo State High court, Okitipupa Judicial Division which sacked the traditional ruler over faulty selection process in December,2005.
Delivering the lead judgment, Justice Mojeed Adekunle Owoade dismissed the nine-year-old appeal filed by Oba Obanuga on the grounds that it lacked merit and failed in its entirety.
