Yoshishige OTOMO was opposed in the beginning, as he suspected that if Takafusa SUE only supported Haruhide as his puppet, his own government would not survive and he would likely be disinherited, but as Haruhide himself wanted to become the head of the Ouchi clan and claimed that "it is worse for me to be slandered by rejecting this request and I don't care for my life," Yoshishige accepted.
大友義鎮は当初から陶隆房が晴英を傀儡として擁立するだけで、自分の政権が揺ぎ無いものとなれば、廃嫡されるに違いないと疑い反対したが、晴英自身が大内当主となるのを望み、「この要請を断り中傷を受ける事の方が悔しいので、命は惜しくない」と主張した為、義鎮もこれを認めた。