COURT STOPS OGUN GOVERNMENT FROM DEMOLISHING GBENGA DANIEL’S PROPERTIES

A High Court sitting in Sagamu, Ogun State, has issued an interim order restraining the state government from demolishing or interfering with properties belonging to former governor and current Ogun East senator, Gbenga Daniel.

Justice O.S. Oloyede granted the order ex parte in suit number HCS/371/2025 after considering an affidavit of urgency filed by Daniel and his wife, Olufunke. The court ruled that immediate intervention was necessary to preserve the claimants’ rights pending further hearing.

The judge barred the state government, its agents, proxies, and any persons acting on its behalf from carrying out demolition, enforcing the quit notice issued on August 8, 2025, or otherwise disturbing the couple’s possession of the properties. The matter was adjourned to August 19 for the hearing of an application for an interlocutory injunction.

The legal move follows a brewing dispute between Senator Daniel and the Ogun State Government over his Asoludero residence and Conference Hotel in Sagamu. Daniel alleges the government’s action is politically motivated and violates due process, insisting the buildings were lawfully constructed before the Ogun State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law No. 61 of 2022 came into force.

But Governor Dapo Abiodun’s spokesman, Kayode Akinmade, has dismissed Daniel’s claims as “cheap blackmail,” insisting that the senator, like other property owners in the area, was duly served with notices and asked to present his planning permit and land title for verification requirements he allegedly ignored.