Justice Akintola had filed a suit delineated I/451/2013 before a state high court sitting at Ring road, Ibadan, claiming to be the biological son of the late Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, asking to be acknowledged as such. The suit, which was first assigned to Honourable Justice S.A Akinteye, was at the Pre-trial Conference stage when it was re assigned to Honourable Justice Eni F. Esan. During the Pre-trial conference before Justice Akinteye, counsel to the Samuel Ladoke Akintola family, Olaseni Oyefeso Esq had challenged the locus standi of the Claimant on the ground that he could not have validly sued as “beneficiary in the estate of late Chief S.L Akintola” as it was the subject matter pending before the court for determination. Justice Akinteye however dismissed this application and the family filed an appeal against this decision at the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan and trial in the suit has been adjourned till March 16, 2016 for trial. The defendants in the suit filed by the judge are Bashorun Abayomi Akintola and Dr Abimbola Akintola, daughter of the late Premier and the duo have sent a petition to the Chief Judge of Oyo State, requesting a transfer of the Suit to another Judge of the Court on the basis of “likelihood of bias,” adding in the petition that the judge does not refrain from conducting his case on the pages of newspapers. In their petition, they stated further that as the two surviving children of Chief Akintola and defendants in the suit, they will not hesitate to petition the National Judicial Council alleging misconduct by a High court judge, alleging that the judge has an apparent intent to distort facts in desperation to establish his case. According to them, a speaker at a public lecture organised in honour of Chief Akintola as published in a national newspaper was used to further this cause when he stated that, “as minister for health, the great Samuel Ladoke Akintola, was on a tour of hospital establishments in the Northern Nigeria in 1957. The great Diplomat, humorist and wordsmith, was taken around the Nasarawa General Hospital in Kano, when his eagle eyes fell on a young dazzling beauty and damsel – Ms Rosannah Bolanle Adedeji, a Yoruba Nurse in the Sahara Desert. “As if by design, they both had near identical facial marks. That encounter became a love at first sight that eventually produced Ladiran Akinniyi Akintola in 1959. Ladiran is now a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Oyo State. He gave the Child a name – Ladiran and his cousin, Ladokun was present at the naming ceremony. His bossom friend Hon Dejo Adigun and Ladoke’s younger brother- Akinbowale Akintola became regular emissaries. The defendants in their defence stated that this story was never part of history about their father and are is incorrect, describing it as a ploy to adduce false evidence in the media by a person in the position of a High Court Judge that should know better. Dr Akintola averred that her father, Chief Akintola, was an upright man, a devout Christian and an advocate of faithfulness in marriage who was only married to her late mother, Chief Faderera Abeke Akintola, who begot all his children namely Omodele (deceased), Abayomi, Abimbola (herself), Ladipupo (deceased) and Tokunboh (deceased) When contacted on the matter, counsel to the S.L Akintola family, Olaseni Oyefeso Esq, said he has nothing to say on the matter as it is before the court and anything he says is tantamount to subjudice.]]>