The crisis, which has been erupting silently since Former Governor ‘s burial was made a public matter in October 2022 when the wife of the late former governor, Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, one of her daughters, obtained a Letter of Administration from the Oyo State Probate Registry without the knowledge or consent of Oluwatoyin, the first child.
23 June, 2025
Sheriff Ibrahim
The first daughter of late Christopher Adebayo Alao Akala, Oluwatoyin Alao-Aderinto has filed a suit seeking for her father’s exhumation to carry out DNA test and also seeking an order for a Deoxyribonucleic Acid test on seven people claiming to be biological children of her late father, at Oyo state high court, Ibadan.
Toyin’s move was as a result of a messy and prolonged family feud over the vast estate of the late politician, who transited to the heavenly realm on January 12, 2022.
In a suit filed before Justice Taiwo of Court 12 at the state High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan, Alao-Aderinto is praying the court to direct that the DNA tests be carried out on herself, and her siblings, including a serving member of the House of Representatives, Olamijuwonlo.
Others named for the DNA test are Olamide, Adebukola, Olamipo, Tabitha and Olamikunle, as listed in the motion on notice filed through her counsel, Oladipo Olasope, SAN, and registered I/443/2024.
The crisis, which has been erupting silently since Former Governor ‘s burial was made a public matter in October 2022 when the wife of the late former governor, Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, one of her daughters, obtained a Letter of Administration from the Oyo State Probate Registry without the knowledge or consent of Oluwatoyin, the first child.
Her counsel, Olasope had, in an August 2023 letter made public, warned that the exclusion of the claimant who is the first daughter of the late Alao-Akala, violated both moral norms and legal rights, stressing that unless resolved, the dispute could further polarise the family and damage the late governor’s political legacy.
Alao-Aderinto, in her fresh prayer at Ring road High Court in Ibadan, however said the tests be conducted at a court-approved, accredited laboratory to determine their true biological relationship with the late former governor.
She is also seeking an order of the court, directing exhumation of his remains from the mausoleum built in the former governor’s Ogbomoso country home for the purpose of carrying out the paternity test.
