Oba Solomon Akinola, the Oloko of Oko in Surulere Local Government area of Oyo State, has lost his second appeal in the land case he had for several years contested with Aagba kingdom and Tropical Culture LTD.
Delivering judgment on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 Justice Uwani Musa Abba- Aji, JSC, who led five other Justices of the Supreme court, dismissed Oba Akinola’s appeal filed on 3rd of December 2025 with Appeal No. SC/ML/593/2025 for Abuse of Court Process.
The pronouncement put finality to the land tussle, which had lingered for a little over 100 years.
It would be recalled that the supreme Court had on Nov. 11, 2024 struck out the earlier Appeal No. SC/CV/550/2021 for being incompetent and Oba Solomon later filed the second appeal which has now suffered outright dismissal for being an abuse of court process.
When the case was called, Counsel to the Appellant, Mr. A.B. Adeyi was about to move his Application when counsel to the 1st Respondent Mr. Olanrewaju Akinsola, (SAN), raised a Preliminary Objection that the Appeal was incompetent for being in violation of the rules of the court.
Also, counsel to the people of Aagba, the second respondent, Mr. Aniete Udoh informed the Court that the Appeal was an Abuse of Court Process in that the judgment of the court of appeal for which stay of execution was sought had since been executed since March 2023 to the knowledge of the Appellant and his counsel and their application to set aside the execution was dismissed by an Oyo State High Court in February 2024.
Furthermore, Udoh told the court that both the Oyo State High Court and the Court of Appeal Ibadan Division have held concurrently that Aagba Chieftaincy family is not a Customary tenant of Oloko, that Oko and Aagba each has its distinct land.
He further argued that the Appellant was only interested in filing frivolous Applications at the Supreme Court so as to continue to perpetrate his criminal activities at Aagba community using pendency of case at supreme court as an excuse.
Consequently, the Court agreed with both the counsel of the first as well as the second Respondents and dismissed the Appeal and also awarded a cost of N2 million each in favour of Aagba Chieftaincy family and Tropical Culture Ltd making a total of N4 million against Oba Solomon Akinola.
This four million naira fine is in addition to the N500,000 that had been earlier slammed against Akinola in favour of the second respondent in the sister case SC/ML/69/2024 which was earlier struck out same day for filing an incompetent suit all totaling N4.5 million. This is also in addition to the N5 million damages earlier awarded by the Court of Appeal in December 2020 in favour of Tropical Culture Ltd which remains unpaid.
In his reaction to the court judgment, Dr Isaac Abiodun who is the Director of Tropical Culture Ltd expressed happiness that the judiciary still remains the hope of common man even though the wheels of justice seem to grind slowly. He said that Oba Solomon Akinola will now face his criminal charge squarely in Charge No. I/288c/2025 instituted against him by Oyo State Task Force Unit of Oyo State Real Property Protection Law, otherwise known as Anti-land Grabbing Task force. He expressed optimism that: “justice would be served in that case too after the infamous withdrawal of the monarch’s name from the earlier Charge No. HOI/1C/2023 by the Attorney-General of Oyo State Mr. Abiodun Aikomo despite the weight of evidence against the Oba who macheted and maimed our people in his palace even when the court had earlier dismissed the Oba’s ‘No Case Submission’ Application.
“all persons who have invaded and are in illegal occupation of Aagba and Tropical Culture land and reaping the fruits of their cashew plantations and other crops should take notice and desists from further trespassing on their land, failure of which the strong arm of the law will catch up with them without delay,” Abiodun stated.
