{"id":70894,"date":"2025-07-17T18:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70894"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:39:49","slug":"court-declares-ex-senate-president-ebute-lawful-owner-of-wuye-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/17\/court-declares-ex-senate-president-ebute-lawful-owner-of-wuye-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Declares Ex-Senate President Ebute Lawful Owner of Wuye Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Samuel Adeola<\/p>\n<p>An Abuja High Court has declared former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, the rightful owner of a disputed plot in Wuye District, ending a legal tussle spanning 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Maryanne Anenih ruled that Ebute\u2019s 1993 allocation of Plot L346 by the FCDA remains valid, rendering a subsequent allocation to former FCDA director Emmanuel Okereke null and void.<\/p>\n<p>Okereke, who had obtained a Certificate of Occupancy, demanded N100 million in damages for alleged trespass.<\/p>\n<p>However, AGIS records confirmed Ebute\u2019s plot was never revoked or reassigned.<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld the principle of &#8220;first in time,&#8221; ordered a fresh C-of-O for Ebute, and issued a perpetual injunction to prevent further interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Samuel Adeola An Abuja High Court has declared former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, the rightful owner of a disputed plot in Wuye District, ending a legal tussle spanning 25 years. Justice Maryanne Anenih ruled that Ebute\u2019s 1993 allocation of Plot L346 by the FCDA remains valid, rendering a subsequent allocation to former FCDA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70894","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70896,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70894\/revisions\/70896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}