{"id":74788,"date":"2025-09-02T10:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74788"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:46:06","slug":"adebutu-accuses-gov-abiodun-of-harassment-over-n72m-land-use-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/02\/adebutu-accuses-gov-abiodun-of-harassment-over-n72m-land-use-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Adebutu Accuses Gov Abiodun of Harassment Over N72m Land Use Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State during the 2023 elections, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of political harassment after his property in Ode Remo was served a N72 million Land Use and Amenities Charge notice.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by his media aide, Afolabi Orekoya, Adebutu described the enforcement as \u201ccontemptuous of the judiciary,\u201d noting that the matter is already the subject of two pending cases before the High Court of Sagamu.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that the Ministry of Finance acted illegally by pasting the notice without due process and accused the Abiodun administration of \u201cweaponising government agencies against perceived opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chieftain urged Ogun residents to \u201csee through the intimidation\u201d and resist what he called an attempt to silence opposition voices.<\/p>\n<p>His claims follow similar allegations recently made by former governor Gbenga Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Governor Abiodun\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, dismissed Adebutu\u2019s claims as \u201cpolitical noise,\u201d insisting that the Land Use Charge is a statutory levy applicable to all property owners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about politics,\u201d Akinmade said. \u201cEvery state collects Land Use Charge. Those who disagree with their assessment should approach the Ministry of Finance rather than politicise the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State during the 2023 elections, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of political harassment after his property in Ode Remo was served a N72 million Land Use and Amenities Charge notice. In a statement by his media aide, Afolabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74788","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74790,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74788\/revisions\/74790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}