August 11, (THEWILL) – The Ogun State House of Assembly has threatened to arrest popular Yoruba actor, Goriola Adeniyi Hassan, for parading himself as the Oba of Imobi, in Ijebu-East Local Government Area of the State.
The threat of arrest followed Hassan’s failure to honour an invitation by the House of Assembly to appear before it.
The Ogun Assembly Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, said on Tuesday that Hassan had earlier failed to honour an invitation sent to him by the lawmakers.
The committee led by Hon. Bolanle Ajayi summoned Adeniyi to appear before it next Tuesday, in order to respond to a petition written against him by a group known as the Imobi Descendants’ Union.
The petition, it was gathered, bothered on his purported claim to the Obaship stool of Imobi-Ijebu.
Meanwhile, the committee has ordered Hassan to stop parading himself as a traditional ruler in Imobi. He was also asked to appear before the House Committee with all the 36 Baales (local chiefs) under the community, on August 17, 2021.
“Failure to honour the invitation would result in the issuance of an arrest warrant to all invitees, especially Goriola Hassan, who failed to honour an earlier invitation extended to him by the Assembly,” the committee chairman had said.
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