It’s a total shame, say Rhodes-Vivour, Deji Adeyanju
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, yesterday, lamented the demolition of a property belonging to his younger brother in Lagos State without legal backing.

Obi alleged that the demolition was carried out by unidentified persons acting on a vague court judgment that did not mention his brother, the property, or contain any demolition order.

He raised the alarm on his verified X handle.

According to him, the property, owned by his brother’s company, had existed for over 15 years before it was brought down.

He said: “This morning, my youngest brother called me frantically, informing me that a group of people had invaded his company property in Ikeja, Lagos, and were demolishing the building. He had just come in from Port Harcourt and was denied entry into the property by security men who told him the building was being pulled down.”

Obi, who said that he flew from Abuja to witness the scene firsthand, added that he was barred from entering the premises and was told that the demolition was being carried out pursuant to a court order.

“The supposed judgment was addressed to unnamed squatters and did not include any demolition order or authorising documentation. How do you sue an unknown person? How does a court issue a judgment in such a farce of a case? No one was served. No name was written, yet they showed up with excavators and began destroying a structure that had stood for over 15 years,” he said.

Meanwhile, a former candidate of the LP for the 2023 governorship election in the state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, have condemned the alleged illegal demolition of a company belonging to a younger brother of Obi.

Rhodes-Vivour, in a post on his official X handle, yesterday, said he was “deeply saddened by this level of lawlessness and recklessness, a notorious pattern of irresponsibility that has now been normalised by the parasitic culture of the ruling party.”

On his part, Adeyanju questioned why the property was brought down without allowing the owner to remove his belongings.

He wrote on his Facebook page: “Where are we heading in this country? Why was Peter Obi’s brother’s property demolished in Lagos?

“And he was not allowed to remove his property. What kind of politics is this for God’s sake?”