Justice O.S. Oloyede of the Ogun State High Court in Sagamu on Monday extended for another three months an interim injunction that bars Governor Dapo Abiodun, his representatives, Industrial Platform Remo Limited, and Arise Integrated Industrial Platform from further encroaching on 15,309 acres of land in Ilara Remo, located in Remo North Local Government Area.
During the resumed hearing of the case—marked HCS/377/2025 and dated August 18, 2025—Justice Oloyede ordered the extension of the injunction, originally granted on September 1st, to give the defendants’ lawyers time to properly file and regularise their court documents.
Mr. M.O. Enitan, representing Olasupo Sashore (SAN), counsel to the first defendant (Governor Abiodun), along with Mr. W.A. Onawole from the state Ministry of Justice, representing the Attorney General, Commissioner for Justice, and the Bureau of Lands, and Mr. M.O. Mordi, counsel for the fourth defendant, Industrial Platform Remo, all informed the court that they had not yet regularised their legal filings.
The counsel to the claimants, Dr Olumide Ayeni, SAN, therefore, in the light of the submissions by the counsels to the defendants, pleaded for the extension of the injunction order pending the next adjournment date.
Judge Oloyede, while acceding to the request of the claimants, therefore fixed January 13, 2026, for further hearing of the suit.
Recall that the court had given the injunction order following an ex parte application and affidavit of urgency filed by the Lisa of Ilara Remo, Chief Samuel Olukoya Sodunola; the Oliwo Egudu of Ilara Remo, Chief Babatunde Ogunfeso; the Olootu Asipa Oje of Ilara Remo, Chief Ayedun Akintoye; Mrs. Remilekun Ogunfuwa, Public Relations Officer of the Ilara Remo Development Association; and 19 others.
In the suit dated August 18, 2025, the applicants sought an interim injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, officers, or privies from further dealing with, trespassing on, or alienating the land, measuring approximately 6,227.91 hectares (15,309.172 acres) and described in Survey Plan No. IL/02/PROV/1998 of June 18, 1998—pending the determination of their motion for interlocutory injunction.
Ayeni argued that his clients are the legal and beneficial owners of the land and accused the 4th and 5th defendants of “surreptitiously erecting structures” and alienating parts of the land to third parties in an attempt to “foist a fait accompli on the court.”
He added, “The 4th and 5th defendants have continued to use the support of the 1st and 2nd defendants to enter the applicants’ lands, start construction works, and alienate the land up to the present time and will continue unless restrained. Damages would not be adequate to compensate the applicants if judgment is ultimately in their favour.”
Ayeni further submitted that granting the application would not prejudice the defendants, stressing that it was in the interest of justice to preserve the status quo ante bellum pending determination of the substantive suit.