The Adinimodo Egungun outing remains listed for 14 November. Kabiru Bashiru has appealed the court ruling that restrained his coronation, which was advertised for the same day.
Miyaki is Oworonshoki’s longest street and the only access road to both the Oloworo Palace and the Oko Baba Agba Palace. People coming into the community through Olojojo take Miyaki to reach either palace. If traffic backs up on Saturday, the delay could reach Olojojo and affect people entering Oworonshoki as well as residents trying to get home.
The Adinimodo Egungun outing remains on the published programme for Saturday, 14 November. The Olu Oko Baba Agba coronation, advertised for the same day, has been restrained by a Lagos State High Court. As of 9 November, Kosofe Inside Out had found no public police advisory explaining how crowds and traffic around the two palaces would be managed.
What residents still need to know
The festival programme issued under the authority of the Oloworo, Oba Babatunde Saliu, gives no start time, assembly point or procession route for Adinimodo. People who live and trade along Miyaki still need to know whether the procession will pass their homes or shops, where spectators will gather and where drivers can stop without blocking the road.
The coronation invitations already in circulation raise a separate question. If guests travel on the strength of those invitations, what will they be told when they arrive? Clear guidance from the organisers could answer that before people set out.
The coronation ruling and the appeal
Invitations reviewed by KIO advertised the coronation of Chief Kabiru Adesegun Bashiru for Saturday, 14 November, behind the Oko Baba Agba Palace Ground. Punch, reporting on the court order, gave Monday, 16 November as the proposed date. KIO found no revised notice from the organisers explaining the difference.
A Notice of Appeal reviewed by KIO shows that Bashiru is challenging the whole of Justice Taiwo Olatokun’s 6 November ruling in suit ID/9885GCMW/2023. His lawyers have separately asked the court to suspend enforcement pending the appeal. As of 9 November, KIO had seen no order granting that request or lifting the coronation restraint.
Who will keep Miyaki clear?
The festival organisers can publish the Adinimodo route and start time. The coronation organisers can tell invitees what the ruling means for their travel plans. The question for Lagos Police Commissioner Tijani Fatai, LASTMA and Kosofe Local Government is who will manage traffic between Olojojo and the palaces, and how they will keep Miyaki open for residents, ambulances and fire engines. That guidance needs to reach people before Saturday.
KIO welcomes responses from the authorities and both sets of organisers and will add them to this report.