A HIGH Court sitting in Sagamu, Ogun State has issued an interim order restraining the state fovernment and its agents from demolishing or tampering with the property belonging to a former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel.
The order, granted ex parte, followed an affidavit of urgency filed by the claimants, OGD and wife, Yeye Olufunke Daniel.
Daniel, through his lawyer, A.M Kotoye SAN, filed motion seeking an ex parte order restraining the defendants, Governor Dapo Abiodun; the Attorney General of Ogun State; Ogun State Planning and Development Permit Authority and the Ogun State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development in three different separate suits from tampering with the Asoludero Court; and a property belonging to Daniel’s wife, in Sagamu, and Conference Hotel and Blue Chapel Limited.
The former governor and his wife ,who were applicants in the suits marked HCS/371/2025; HCS/373/2025 and HCS/372/2025 respectively, sought the order of the court restraining the defendants and their agents, allies from demolishing or tampering with Asoludero Court suitated on Block 1,Plots 7&8 of Block XXXV111 Plot 1&12, within the amended part of the Government Reservation Area; Daniel’s wife property and Conference Hotel, Sagamu.
Daniel in the Suit claimed that the property has a Certificate of Occupancy with No.LUD3/LR2693, dated 20th January, 2010.
Counsel to the applicants, Adeyinka Kotoye SAN, moved the motion exparte dated 11th of August and filed on the 11th of August before the Court.
In the ruling, Justice O.S Oloyede, said the Court needed to take immediate action on the Suits having read all the affidavits in support and affidavits of urgency to intervene in the cases.
The court, therefore, issued an exparte interim order restraining the defendants and other agents from tampering any of the properties.
The suit has been adjourned to August 19, 2025, for the hearing of the application for an interlocutory injunction.
This newspaper reports the state government served a quit and demolition notice on Daniel’s private residence and hotels in Sagamu.
The structures marked are his residence, popularly known as Asoludero court and Conference hotel, its annex, all located at Obafemi Awolowo Avenue GRA, Sagamu.
Daniel had described the notice as a political persecution by the government, but Abiodun hit back at him, saying the notice was part of a statutory land audit.
The governor in a statement by his Media Aide, Kayode Akinmade, asked Daniel to submit himself to the law, saying nobody is above the state.