An Oyo State High Court has ruled against the late strong man of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu and late Pastor Peter Asha over the ownership of a property situated at No1, Lebanon Street, Dugbe, Ibadan.
The ruling was given by Justice Muftau A.Adegbola of the Oyo State High Court 4, 21 years after a rigorous legal battle.
Late Adedibu, the owner of King Zion Ventures Ltd, late (Pastor) Peter Asha had been laying claims to the ownership of the property.
Before the case was filed in court, some hoodlums who were said to be acting on the instructions of the late politician had in 2006, stormed a shop, Pelly Foams Limited, vandalized all the contents in the shop.
The owner, Mr Pelumi Foluwasho Ojo had approached the court to seek redress.
During the ruling, the court dismissed all the claims of the defendants, Alhaji Adedibu, King Zion and granted all the reliefs of the claimant (Pelumi Foluwasho Ojo) as the rightful owner of the property on No 1, Lebanon Street, Dugbe Ibadan.
According to the court, there are no recital to show that Olubadan ceded the land to the defendants or that indeed he has any link to the land.
The court therefore dismissed the claims of the defendant that was claiming rightful owner of the property situated at No1 Lebanon Street, Dugbe Ibadan.
The Court said exhibit 'Q' and 'E' tendered by the defendant, (King Zion Ventures Ltd.) were not registered.
Speaking with newsmen after the judgment, one of the lawyers to the defendant, (Pelumi Foluwasho Ojo) Barrister S.Oyedele Sanni said his client got judgment on the property situated at No 1, Lebanon Street, Dugbe, Ibadan because the documents submitted to court as exhibits by King Zion Ventures Ltd were not registered. "And the exhibits therefore cannot confer titles on any property.
"On our part, the documents submitted by us as exhibits were registered. We got the documents after the demarcation of the local government which ceded the property to Ibadan North West, where Pelumi Foluwasho Ojo got his documents, which were registered.
"The Court ruled that Exhibits 'Q' and 'E ' which is their own titles were not registered and did not specify where their property was situated.
"The court further said that defendant failed to include or present the site plan and recital that indicated that Olubadan gave them the landed property.
"The court therefore granted all our reliefs that the land belongs to us", Barrister Sanni said.
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