The Lagos Situation Prime Court docket will listen the withdrawal of a joinder utility filed via Afamefuna and Nwachukwu, sons of Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on March 10, 2025.
The applying, dated December 16, 2024, seeks to retract their previous request to be joined as events in a 2011 component go well with involving Ojukwu Delivery Restricted.
The latest go well with, marked LD/794/2011, used to be filed via Ogbonna Ojukwu and others towards OTL, with judgment delivered in 2018.
Justice Adedayo Oyebanji had awarded ownership of OTL’s Lagos houses, together with Deny. 29 Oyinkan Abayomi Force, Ikoyi, to the corporate.
Following the judgment, OTL finished a warrant of ownership for all its Lagos houses, finishing the method in July 2022.
Afamefuna and Nwachukwu, who had claimed they have been blind to the latest go well with, implemented extreme age to attach the case as events and sought exemption from the already finished warrant.
Past due Well-known Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu used to be a celebration to the go well with till his dying in 2011.
On the extreme listening to for the new utility for the joinder on April 22, 2024, OTL Director, Dr P Ike Ojukwu, their agent, Mr Massey Udegbe and legal professional, Well-known Ifeanyi Okumah have been in courtroom future Bianca, and her sons and their legal professionals have been absent.
The case used to be adjourned until March 10, 2025, for a listening to.
Justice A. M. Lawal had within the 2022 judgment granted a restraining series towards interference with Afamefuna and Nwachukwu’s ownership of the houses pending the harmonization of Ojukwu houses via OTL.
Claiming to be blind to the subject ahead of Justice Onyebanji, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu extreme age served a ‘Notice of Disobedience of Court order’ on OTL, the Ojukwu and alternative tenants of the component.
Of their utility searching for to be joined in case ahead of Justice Onyebanji, the Bianca sons claimed that they weren’t conscious about the pendency of the go well with and weren’t incorporated as events within the case.
They argued that it will quantity to a miscarriage of justice for the subject to be conclusively made up our minds with out their enter as the problems within the case have an effect on their passion.
In the meantime, OTL had extreme age, following the judgment of Justice Lawal harmonised the control of its property and reaffirmed Massey Udegbe and Co as its property agent and printed the similar in two nationwide newspapers.
Of the 5 houses in Bianca and son’s 2012 go well with, OTL claims that it had no longer been paid hire for 12 years (N144m) via Uche Obilor/West African Offshore Restricted, occupants of 30 Gerard Rd,Ikoyi, Lagos.
It additionally claimed that the occupants of 32a Industrial Road,Yaba, Foursquare Gospel Church, has no longer paid OTL any hire since 2017 future 4 Macpherson Rd,Ikoyi has been beneath Police ‘lock and key’ since July 2015.
It additionally insisted that 29 Oyinkan Abayomi Rd, Ikoyi has been uninhabited for over two decades future 13 Ojora Rd, Ikoyi is in just right situation with just right tenant-landlord working out.