.....WINJOBI CHARGES GOVERNOR ADELEKE ON LAND GRABBING
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY OTUNBA TOLA WINJOBI (PHD), GLOBAL PRESIDENT OSOGBO GRAMMAR SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (HOME & ABROAD) AT THE JOINT STRATEGY MEETING BETWEEN THE GLOBAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND OGS STAKEHOLDERS HOLDING AT OSOGBO GRAMMAR SCHOOL, OSOGBO, OSUN STATE, NIGERIA ON THURSDAY 22ND OF JANUARY 2026.
Dr Tola Winjobi the Global President of Osogbo Grammar School, Alumni Association Home and Abroad has charged Governor Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke of Osun State to give executive order to the Ministry of Justice to constitute a panel of judicial enquiry to look into the circumstances surrounding the ambush judgement secured by one Lekan Salami of Igbaemu family Osogbo against Osun State government ceding a large portion of land belonging to Osogbo Grammar School to individuals converting the land to commercial purposes. Dr Winjobi condemned the non-responsive attitude of Osun State government to whom several letters have been written without a response.
The call was made on Thursday 22nd of January, 2026 by Winjobi at a multi-level stakeholders’ strategy meeting involving the Elders’ Consultative Forum and Board of Governors of Osogbo Grammar School to discuss the strategy for re-claimming the encroached land from the land grabbers. The event which featured some illustrious old students of the school including the pioneer National President of the association Professor Michael Ologunde, Elder Tunde Durotoye, High Chief Gbadebo Adeyemo, Surveyor Johnson Koledowo, Engineer Felix Ayoola and a host of others decried the attitude of government in its taciturnity on the matter suggesting the complicity of the government on the dastardly act of plundering the land and other resources of the oldest school n Osun Division founded in 1950.
In his words, Dr Tola Winjobi called out “our Imole Governor Nurudeen Jakson Ademola Adeleke to come to our aid. Let him give an executive order to reverse this ambush judgement against his government because it is disheartening and ludicrous that a government could be testifying against itself. Let a panel be set up to review the circumstances surrounding such a clandestine judgement while those found culpable should be brought to book”.
Otunba(Dr.) Tola Winjobi
(GLOBAL PRESIDENT OSOGBO GRAMMAR SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION)
Dr Winjobi explained that the encroachment into Osogbo Grammar School land started as mere farming activities by some peasant farmers few years ago but in 2018 “we noticed the surreptitious encroachment in which some individuals were mapping out our land for commercial purposes which led to taking the matter to court”. The Global President of the Alumni narrated how the school land encroachment had exhibited a new dimension to the extent that the land speculators were first erecting beacons and pillars close to the laboratory block, and then later laying the foundations of their illegal buildings very close to old principal’s lodge. He added that the most astounding was the fact that few days before stationing some bulldozers around, the usurpers were brazenly removing the roofs of the former girls’ hostel and threatening to pull down all the structures within the school premises.
When asked who was behind this forcible taking over of the school land, Dr Tola Winjobi stated that a faction of “Gbaemu family in Osogbo led by one Lekan Salami “has been the brain behind cutting our land into plots and selling them to unsuspecting buyers some of who had reported us to the police when we had erected a fence blocking the caterwaul interlopers away from reaching our school”. He indicted some civil servants including Lekan Salami who is still in government service and the Ministry of Justice as the latter was brandying a kangaroo judgement document he had procured from the latter which is why Winjobi is calling for judicial enquiry into the circumstances behind the judgement because Old Students which were supposed to be a party to the case were edged out.
Lending their voices to the matter, the pioneer National President of the Association, the Convener of Elders’ Consultative Forum Elder Tunde Durotoye and High Chief Gbadebo Adeyemo wondered how the land speculators are not encroaching on land at St Charles’ Grammar School, Akinorun Grammar School, Okuku Grammar School, Timi Agbale Grammar School etc which are younger than OGS. They thus called on Kabiyesi Ataoja to redeem this first school in Osun Division where he rules and reigns as the school was founded by his forebear, and it would not speak well of Kabiyesi if these land grabbers are allowed to plunder this 56.32 acres of land being plundered and apportioned to individuals for selfish use.
Dr Tola Winjobi specifically called on the retired justices in Osogbo, Egbe Alatunse of All Saints Cathedral Balogun Agoro, Osogbo Progressive Union and Osogbo Action Group to rise to the occasion and save the pride of Osun State (OGS) from extinction in the hands of land marauders as the school belongs to them too apart from the government that holds it in trust for the entire Osogbo citizens.
While thanking all the alumni that have been in the forefront of defending the rights of the citizens and confronting land grabbers, Winjobi warned the loquacious and garrulous blacklegs among the alumni who were feeding these undesirable elements information about our strategy to desist from this act. Concluding that “Backbiting and backstabbing is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
Otunba Tola Winjobi(PhD)
Global President, OGSAA Home and Abroad
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