A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has restrained the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), from proceeding with their alleged plan to enforce the revocation of a disputed land in Maitama district, Abuja.

Justice Bello Kawu, in a ruling, equally barred Wike, the FCTA, and the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) from giving effect to or acting on a revocation notice issued over Park No. 2008, Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama.

The ruling delivered on December 22, 2025, a certified true copy (CTC) of which was seen on Wednesday, was on an ex-parte motion filed by Nanet Hotels Limited, the claimant in a suit marked FCT/HC/M/17103/2025, challenging among others, the propriety of the purported revocation notice.

According to Justice Kawu, the defendants must be restrained “from giving effect to, acting upon, enforcing, implementing or taking any step whatsoever pursuant to the purported revocation contained in the letter dated July 7, 2025 and received on September 24, 2025, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice”.

The judge also restrained the defendants from “ejecting, harassing, intimidating, disturbing, sealing, demolishing, reallocating or otherwise interfering” with the claimant’s possession and occupation of the property.

He directed the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to refrain from enforcing or acting in furtherance of the disputed revocation or from providing security cover for any eviction or disturbance on the land.

Justice Kawu ordered all parties to maintain the status quo as of the date the application was filed.

Nanet Hotels Limited, through its solicitors, Ojukwu Chikaosolu & Co. has since issued a public notice warning politicians, public officeholders, developers and investors to stay off the disputed land.

In the notice dated January 20, 2026, the firm cautioned “all governors of the federation, all senators, all members of the house of representatives, all ministers, political appointees, developers, investors and the general public” against dealing in any land “situated at, upon, or derived from Park No. 2008, Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama District, Abuja”.

The solicitors said there is a “subsisting and active suit” before the FCT high court and “clear, binding and subsisting interim orders” protecting the land.

“For the avoidance of all doubt, no person, authority, agency or developer whatsoever has any lawful right to allocate, sell, transfer, mortgage, lease, develop or deal in any manner with the said land,” the notice reads.

The firm warned that any person who proceeds to transact on the land “does so entirely at his own risk” and would be deemed to have full notice of the pending litigation and court orders. (The Nation)

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