ALLEGED FALSE CLAIM OF COURT OF APPEAL JUDGMENT ON TITLE TO LAND AT IGOBA; ONDO MONARCH DRAGGED TO COURT
The Elemo Igoba Family has dragged the Obalogun of Igoba, His Royal Highness, Oba Adinlewa Adeniyi, before the Ondo State High Court over his alleged false claim that the Court of Appeal has declared him as the owner of the Elemo Igoba Family land at Aleo and Imolumo in Igoba, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
In the suit marked HCAK/293/CIV/2025, filed by the Head of the Family, Elder Peter Akomolafe, for himself and on behalf of Elemo Family of Igoba, through J.B Adeyogbe Esq. of Femi Emmanuel Emodamori & Co., the Family is claiming the following reliefs against the Obalogun of Igoba
A DECLARATION that the public announcements and/or statements deliberately sponsored by the Defendant between April and June, 2025 that the Court of Appeal has now stripped the Claimant of title to the land at Aleo and Imolumo, Igoba, Akure North Local Government in Ondo State and awarded same to him, is totally false, absurd, and a deliberate misrepresentation of the Judgment of the Court of Appeal in Appeal Number: CA/AK/18/2021, and constitutes injurious falsehood against the economic interest of the Claimant’s Elemo Family of Igoba in respect the land at Aleo and Imolumo which has been consistently adjudged as Elemo Igoba Family Land by this Honourable Court and the Court of Appeal.
A DECLARATION that the public announcements and/or statements deliberately sponsored by the Defendant between April and June, 2025 that the Court of Appeal has stripped the Claimant of title to the land at Aleo and Imolumo, Igoba, Akure North Local Government in Ondo State and warning members of the public to beware of dealing with the Claimant in respect of the land, is materially false, baseless, unreasonable, malicious and constitutes defamation of the character of the person of the Claimant (Elder Peter Akomolafe).
The sum of Seventy Million Naira (N70,000,000) as exemplary damages against the Defendant for the tort of injurious falsehood committed against the Claimant’s Elemo Family of Igoba by deliberately misrepresenting the Judgment of the Court of Appeal in Appeal Number: CA/AK/18/2021: Chief Adinlewa Adeniyi & Ors. V. Mr. Peter Akomolafe through public announcements and statements falsely claiming that the Judgment has stripped the Claimant of title to the land at Aleo and Imolumo, Igoba and awarded him same.
The sum of Twenty Million Naira (N20,000,000) as general damages against the Defendant for defamation of character of the Claimant (Elder Peter Akomolafe) by deliberately misrepresenting the Judgment of the Court of Appeal in Appeal Number: CA/AK/239/2018: Chief Adinlewa Adeniyi & Ors. V. Mr. Peter Akomolafe through public announcements and statements falsely claiming that the Judgment has stripped the Claimant of title to the land at Aleo and Imolumo, Igoba and warning members of the public against dealing with him in respect of the land.
AN ORDER of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant whether acting by himself or through his agents, servants or privies from further misrepresenting the Judgment of the Court of in Appeal Number: CA/AK/18/2021 through his deliberate, baseless and injurious falsehood that the Judgment has stripped the Claimant and/or his Elemo Family of Igoba title to the land at Aleo and Imolumo and awarded him (the Defendant) same.
The cost of this Suit: In the Statement of Claim cited by our correspondent, the Elemo Igoba Family referred to several Judgments of the High Court and the Court of Appeal allegedly affirming their ownership of the land and stated that contrary to the alleged false claim of Obalogun, no court has ever stripped the Elemo Igoba Family of tit;le to the land or awarded same to Oba Adinlewa Adeniyi.
The Family alleged the Obalogun of recently sponsoring radio jingles and public announcements falsely claiming that the Court of Appeal has recently declared him as the owner of the land and using the alleged false claim to extort money from those who had legitimately purchased various portions of the land from the Elemo Family by threatening to dispossess them of their land unless they repurchased same from him.
