It took the efforts of his wife who and two of his aides to revive him.
Presiding Magistrate, Adewumi Makanjuola, had ordered Alli to be remanded in prison custody accusing him of pretending and attempting to evade justice.
The monarch is standing trial before the court for allegedly molesting a 23-yearold National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member (names withheld) who did her primary assignment in his domain.
At the resumed hearing on Friday, counsel to the monarch, Victor Opara, B.P Ogundele and Ogonnaya Elekwachi brought an application urging the court to vacate an earlier order given on June 24, 2011 that placed Alli under house arrest.
The monarch had told the court that his health was not good enough, claiming he suffered stroke and related sicknesses. The court, which ordered for a probe into the matter and sought for medical report from the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, revealed that the traditional ruler was only having headache and not stroke as claimed by his counsel.
The development forced the court in its last sitting to place the monarch under house arrest after two consecutive failures to appear in court.
Counsel to the embattled monarch told the court on Friday that government doctors were not attending to him as directed at last sitting adding that “the directive that government’s doctors should attend to him was not carried out as none of the government doctors came to treat the traditional ruler and that his life is in danger owing to his health condition”.
Alli’s lawyers lamented that as a result of the house arrest private doctors of the traditional ruler could not treat him. They therefore appealed to the court to grant their application and vacate the order of the house arrest so that the monarch can be taken to hospital for comprehensive medical treatment.
In his ruling, Makanjuola said the traditional ruler looked healthy and that the excuse of sickness was just a pretense to evade justice. The judge said the claim of the counsel to the monarch that the life of their client was in danger was very suspicious and that the court could not be deceived.
“In order not to take any more chances in as much as the accused has been shown to be worthy of remand in the prison custody I am of the opinion that his remand will be an answer to this problem. The accused person is hereby ordered to be remanded in the prison custody,” the judge ruled.
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