HRM Oba Adeyemi Akanbi Adediran, Atipa Owaji 11, Owamiran of Esa Oke
By our Reporters
The Joint Action Committee, set up by the Council of Elders, to oversee critical issues affecting Esa Oke land has urged all the kinsmen nominated to serve in the Ijesa Community Development Assembly to shun the nominations.
The Committee was unequivocal in its rejection of the nominations of some twenty kinsmen from Esa Oke to take part in the newly set up Ijesa Community Development Assembly.
The Committee in a communique signed by Otunba Yinusa Aremu Bamgboye, Chairman of Esa Oke Central Union (ECU) and Prince Wunmi Adeniyi, Chairman of Esa Oke Renewal Initiative (ERI), said “subjecting ourselves to such an assembly, as constituted, will undermine the independence and territorial integrity of Esa Oke Land”.
The Committee also noted in the communique that “considering the conflict of interest between our dear community and the promoters of the confederacy on the Ido Ajegunle’s settlement crisis, joining them might have negative implications on the pending litigations on Ido Ajegunle and Iloro land matters”.
The committee called on the people to join in the struggle for the “preservation of our heritage for the sake of posterity and the generations yet unborn”.
The Joint Action Committee communicated their rejection of the nominations of twenty Esa Oke men and women known in a communique issued after an emergency meeting held on Sunday 10th, August, 2025.
The communique reads: “Rising from an Emergency Meeting held on 10th August 2025, the Esa-Oke Joint Action Working Committee, vehemently and unequivocally, rejects in its entirety, the nomination of our fellow kinsmen as members of the IDF Ward Congress, by the Ijesa Community Development Assembly”.
The communique noted that “Esa Oke is an independent, historical Community and also one of the largest towns in Ijesha North Traditional Council. The town is indeed, an autonomous Community with historical heritage and values”.
The communique states further that “It is noteworthy to state that both the leadership of the Town, the Elites and Youths, have jointly and severally reviewed the nominations in the letter dated 31st July,2025, the intendment, vis-a-vis our heritage, and the protection of our territorial integrity/sovereignty, that had from time immemorial been handed over to us by our forefathers and unanimously come to the inevitable conclusion that the real intendment of the confederacy is not in our community’s best interest”.
They added that “consequently, the Esa-Oke Joint Action Working Committee appeal passionately and advise our kinsmen, that are named and nominated into the purported Assembly, without their consent, to reject the nominations as it would not serve their best interest or the bigger interest of our dear Esa-Oke land”