A High Court sitting in Sagamu, Ogun State, has issued an interim order restraining the state government and its agents from demolishing or tampering with property belonging to former Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel. The order, granted ex parte, followed an affidavit of urgency filed by Daniel and his wife, Yeye Olufunke Daniel. Through his lawyer, A.M. Kotoye SAN, Daniel sought an ex parte order restraining the defendants — Governor Dapo Abiodun; the Attorney General of Ogun State; the Ogun State Planning and Development Permit Authority; and the Ogun State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development — in three separate suits from interfering with Asoludero Court, a property owned by his wife in Sagamu, and Conference Hotel and Blue Chapel Limited.
In the suits, marked HCS/371/2025, HCS/373/2025, and HCS/372/2025, the couple sought to stop the government from acting against Asoludero Court, located on Block 1, Plots 7 & 8 of Block XXXVIII Plot 1 & 12 within the amended part of the Government Reservation Area; Mrs Daniel’s property; and Conference Hotel, Sagamu. Daniel claimed the property had a Certificate of Occupancy (No. LUD3/LR2693) dated January 20, 2010.
Counsel to the applicants, Adeyinka Kotoye SAN, moved the motion ex parte dated and filed on August 11 before the court. Justice O.S. Oloyede, after reviewing the affidavits and the affidavit of urgency, granted an interim order restraining the defendants and their agents from tampering with any of the properties. The matter was adjourned to August 19, 2025, for the hearing of an application for an interlocutory injunction.
The dispute began after the state government served quit and demolition notices on Daniel’s private residence and hotels in Sagamu — including Asoludero Court and Conference Hotel. Daniel described the notice as political persecution, while Governor Abiodun insisted it was part of a statutory land audit and maintained that nobody is above the law.
Source: https://guardian.ng/
