A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered the eldest daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, to appear in court to show cause why she should not be stopped from trespassing into an Abuja landed property.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the property is located at Plot 4254, Cadastral Zone A04, measuring approximately 1.67 hectares in Asokoro District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
In a ruling on an ex parte motion filed by counsel to the plaintiffs, Abniyilo Na’allah, Justice Inyang Ekwo also ordered erstwhile FCT Senator Philip Aduda and five other co-defendants to appear before the court on the next adjourned date.
Other defendants named in the ex parte include Ismail Iron, John Mbata, Jamaila Sani Alhassan, Altine Jibrin, and unknown persons as the third to the seventh defendants.
“A motion ex parte for an order for interim injunction, dated January 13, 2025 and field January 17, 2025, is moved.
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“Upon studying the prayers and averments in support of the motion ex parte and the averments in the affidavit of urgency, I am of the opinion that the prayers are not such that can be granted without hearing from the defendants.
“I hereby make an order that the plaintiffs/applicants should put the defendants on notice within seven days of this order and the defendants to show cause why the prayers sought should not be grated,” Justice Ekwo ruled.
But the judge granted the prayer in the second ex parte motion, also moved by Na’allah, seeking an order of substituted service of all the originating processes and other court documents on the defendants through publication in two national dailies.
Na’allah ahd submitted that the defendants’/respondents’ addresses and occupations were not known to them at the time of filing the substantive suit, which is pending before this court.
The lawyer alleged that the defendants/respondents were always seen on Plot 4254, Cadastral Zone A04 at Asokoro in Asokoro District of Abuja.
He said services of the originating processes and all other court processes on the defendants/respondents would become difficult and impossible since their addresses were not known to them.