A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has issued an interim order restraining the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) from enforcing the alleged revocation of a disputed land in Maitama, Abuja.
Justice Bello Kawu, in a ruling, also barred Wike, the FCTA and the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) from giving effect to or acting on a revocation notice concerning Park No. 2008, Cadastral Zone A06, Maitama.
The ruling, delivered on December 22, 2025, followed an ex-parte motion filed by Nanet Hotels Limited in a suit marked FCT/HC/M/17103/2025. The company is challenging the legality of the purported revocation.
According to the judge, 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”.
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Justice Kawu further ordered that the defendants should refrain from “ejecting, harassing, intimidating, disturbing, sealing, demolishing, reallocating or otherwise interfering” with the claimant’s occupation of the land.
The court also directed the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) not to enforce or act in furtherance of the disputed revocation, including providing security for any eviction or disturbance on the property.
In addition, all parties were ordered to maintain the status quo as of the date the application was filed.
Following the ruling, Nanet Hotels Limited, through its legal representatives, Ojukwu Chikaosolu & Co., issued a public notice warning politicians, public officeholders, developers and investors to avoid 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 property.
“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 stated.
The firm further warned that anyone who transacts on the land “does so entirely at his own risk” and would be deemed to have full notice of the pending litigation and existing court orders.
