By Samuel Alonge
A middle-aged man, Mr. Adedeji Adedoyin Olanrewaju, has protested moves to install him as “Baba Alagbo” (head of herbal products sellers) in Kajola Local Government area of Oyo State, in succession to his aged father, who can no longer discharge his function.
Speaking with our correspondent and protesting through an affidavit he deposed to before a Lagos State High Court, he said the attempt to make him to succeed his father as heir apparent, contradicted his Christian faith.
Olanrewaju, who currently resides in Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo State, said the Agbo Sellers Association in the area had been sending emissaries to him and that the emissaries had now become hostile, because of his refusal to
budge.
“As a Christian, I can’t take over the position because it is demonic. I am not against native herbal drug applications, but in such an association, they normally invoke some demonic spirits to guide them, which I will never partake in,” he vowed.
Olanrewaju, who said virtually all members of his family had disowned him, “because of what they consider
as my obstinacy,” urged the authorities, especially the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, to wade into his
situation.
He similarly enjoined the human rights community to come to his assistance, stressing that his security could no longer be guaranteed.
