OTA LAND: FAMILY DISCLAIMS LITIGANTS AGAINST OBASANJO

The Sogunro Family at Itele Ota in Ado-Odo-Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State has disclaimed four residents of the area, who instituted legal action against former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

Penpushing reports that, the litigants, including Chief Nurudeen Akanbi Akapo, Sunday Mathew Owotolu,  Taoreed Momodu Dada and Monsuru Ashifatu Yusuf had dragged Obasanjo, his brother, Chief Abraham Idowu Akanle and wife before the State High Court Ota over alleged defective documents on the expanse of land at Itele, Sogunro village among other anomalies.

The family in a swift response to the litigation at a press conference held in Ota, which was led by Hon. Sunday Sogunro, dismissed the litigants, declaring that they were not part of the family and has no right to take the former President and brother to court in whatever capacity.

Penpushing further reports members of the Sogunro family in their hundreds were seen at the venue of the press conference with various placards to support Obasanjo and condemned the litigants, who they disowned as members of the family.

“And after this investigation, we discover that those behind this case issue were not part of Sogunro Family, which necessitated this world press conference. We cannot fold our arms and allow some strange people to come and subject this family name to ridicule. We are condemning this in its entirety’,Sogunro said.

“The litigants, Chief Nurudeen Akanbi Akapo, Sunday Mathew Owotolu, Taoreed Momodu Dada and Monsuru Ashifatu Yusuf from what we read in the newspapers were not part of Sogunro family, so we wonder why they will say the case against Baba Obasanjo, his brother, Chief Akanle and Mama Akanle is over Sogunro Village, which we are bonafide members and we would not know anything about it? he queried.

Penpushing also reports that, some of the placards inscriptions read: “Sogunro family not ingrate to Obasanjo” “Sogunro family not part of case against Obasanjo at Itele” ” Nurudeen Akanbi Akapo, Sunday Mathew Owotolu,  Taoreed Momodu Dada, Monsuru Ashifatu Yusuf not members of Sogunro Family”

The inscriptions also include; “We know ourselves in Sogunro village” “Nurudeen Akapo, Sunday Owotolu, Taoreed Dada, Monsuru Yusuf, Remove Sogunro Village from your case or face wrath of God” “Don’t be confusionnists. Ogungbemi Alagbeji family not part of Sogunro family”

Penpushing reports that Sogunro explained that there was need to address the press, to checkmate and expose the litigants who he described as desperate, but lack knowledge and all out to discredit the former President

“We have to come to the public to expose the desperation of these people and that is all. In Yoruba saying, you don’t scrape the hair of the owner of the head in his absence. The Sogunro family cannot be under any pressure to say what is not true.”