An Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has declared that the changing of the name of Osun State to the State of Osun by the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola is illegal.
Justice Yinka Afolabi , while delivering the judgment in a case instituted by the Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilesa branch, Mr. Kanmi Ajibola, to challenge the legality of the “State of Osun Land Use Charge Law” held that the law and its makers were unknown to the 1999 Constitution.
Aregbesola had changed the name of the state from Osun State to State of Osun in 2011, but the NBA chairman, who is a human rights activists, had approached the court in 2016 and asked the court to declare as null all transactions done by the state with the name of State of Osun.