The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court has restrained Nyesom Wike, minister of the FCT, and the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) from enforcing the revocation of a disputed land in Maitama district, Abuja.
In an interim order delivered on December 22, 2025, Bello
Kawu, presiding judge, barred Wike, the FCTA, and the Abuja Municipal Area
Council (AMAC) from giving effect to or acting on a revocation notice issued
over Park No. 2008, Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama.
The order followed an ex parte motion filed by Nanet Hotels
Limited, the claimant in the suit marked FCT/HC/M/17103/2025, challenging the
purported revocation of the land.
Kawu held that the defendants must be restrained “from
giving effect to, acting upon, enforcing, implementing or taking any step
whatsoever pursuant to the purported revocation contained in the letter dated
July 7, 2025 and received on September 24, 2025, pending the hearing and
determination of the motion on notice”.
The court further restrained the defendants from “ejecting,
harassing, intimidating, disturbing, sealing, demolishing, reallocating or
otherwise interfering” with the claimant’s possession and occupation of the
property.
The judge also directed the inspector-general of police and
the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to refrain from enforcing or acting in
furtherance of the disputed revocation or from providing security cover for any
eviction or disturbance on the land.
He also ordered all parties to maintain the status quo as of
the date the application was filed.
“The application is hereby granted; order made as prayed,”
the judge ruled.
Following the court order, Nanet Hotels Limited, through its
solicitors, Ojukwu Chikaosolu & Co., issued a public notice warning
politicians, public officeholders, developers and investors to stay off the
disputed land.
In the notice dated January 20, 2026, the firm cautioned
“all governors of the federation, all senators, all members of the house of
representatives, all ministers, political appointees, developers, investors and
the general public” against dealing in any land “situated at, upon, or derived
from Park No. 2008, Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama District, Abuja”.
The solicitors said there is a “subsisting and active suit”
before the FCT high court and “clear, binding and subsisting interim orders”
protecting the land.
“For the avoidance of all doubt, no person, authority,
agency or developer whatsoever has any lawful right to allocate, sell,
transfer, mortgage, lease, develop or deal in any manner with the said land,”
the notice reads.
The firm warned that any person who proceeds to transact on
the land “does so entirely at his own risk” and would be deemed to have full
notice of the pending litigation and court orders.
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