Updated: Court Stops Ogun Government From Demolishing Gbenga Daniel’s Residence, Hotel

The High Court of Ogun State, sitting in Sagamu, has issued interim orders restraining the Ogun State Government and its agents from demolishing or tampering with properties belonging to former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

The orders, granted ex parte, followed affidavits of urgency filed by the claimants — OGD; his wife, Yeye Olufunke Daniel; Conference Hotel, Sagamu; and Blue Chapel Limited.

The court, in three separate suits numbered HCS/371/2025, HCS/372/2025, and HCS/373/2025, held that immediate intervention was necessary to safeguard the properties pending further hearing.

In the first suit, HCS/371/2025, the former governor and his wife were listed as claimants/applicants. In HCS/372/2025, the former first lady and Conference Hotel Limited were the claimants, while in HCS/373/2025, Conference Hotel Limited and Blue Chapel Limited were named as claimants.

In all the suits, the defendants/respondents include the Governor of Ogun State, the Attorney General of Ogun State, the Ogun State Planning and Development Permit Authority, and the Ogun State Commissioner for Physical and Urban Development.

According to the rulings signed by the court’s Principal Registrar, W.T. Ogundele, the judge barred the defendants, their allies, proxies, assigns, cronies, or anyone acting on their behalf from carrying out any demolition, enforcing the quit notice issued on August 8, 2025, or otherwise interfering with the claimants’ possession of the properties.

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One of the key properties, Asoludero Court — the Sagamu residence of the former governor — covers approximately 1.659 hectares, spanning Block 1, Plots 7 and 8, and Block XXXVIII, Plots 1 and 12, within the Government Reservation Area, Sagamu. It is covered by Certificate of Occupancy No. LUD3/LR2693, issued on January 20, 2010.

The court also restrained the defendants from any form of trespass or disturbance of the claimants’ quiet possession until the hearing and determination of the substantive motion on notice.

In one of the rulings, the judge stated:

“Having read the affidavit in support and the affidavit of urgency, I am satisfied that this Honourable Court needs to take immediate steps to intervene in this case. Consequently, I hereby issue an ex parte interim order restraining the defendants/respondents and their agents, allies, proxies, assigns, cronies, servants, etc., and any other persons, however described, from demolishing or tampering with the property known as Asoludero Court… and/or giving effect to the defendants/respondents’ quit notice dated 8th August, 2025, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice herein filed.”

The suits have been adjourned to August 19, 2025, for hearing of the applications for interlocutory injunctions.