{"id":62298,"date":"2025-03-07T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62298"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:17:27","slug":"court-warns-of-case-dismissal-in-obasanjo-asokoro-land-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/07\/court-warns-of-case-dismissal-in-obasanjo-asokoro-land-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Warns of Case Dismissal in Obasanjo Asokoro Land Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja has threatened to dismiss a lawsuit against Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, former FCT Senator Philip Aduda, and others over a disputed 1.67-hectare land in Asokoro, citing lack of diligent prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Thursday, expressed displeasure after the plaintiffs: ABB Electrical Systems Limited and Ambassador Yohana Margif, along with their lawyer, failed to appear in court.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs had accused the defendants of attempting to illegally seize Plot 4254, Cadastral Zone A04.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the hearing, only the counsel for the 4th defendant, John Mbata, was present, stating that he had not been officially served court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ekwo granted the plaintiffs one final chance to prosecute their case, warning that failure to appear at the next hearing on March 15 would result in the case being struck out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal High Court in Abuja has threatened to dismiss a lawsuit against Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, former FCT Senator Philip Aduda, and others over a disputed 1.67-hectare land in Asokoro, citing lack of diligent prosecution. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Thursday, expressed displeasure after the plaintiffs: ABB Electrical Systems Limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62300,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62298\/revisions\/62300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}