AYATU ABU V. ABDULLAHI E. KUYABANA & ORS

MUNTAKA-COOMASSIE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In the writ of summons issued by the High Court of Justice, Federal Capital Territory, the plaintiff, (Ayatu Abu) now appellant, claimed against the defendants, now respondents as follows:-

1. "A declaration that the plaintiff is the bonafide owner of the land known as plot 884 later converted and known as plot 885 Mabushi District in Abuja Federal Capital Territory.

2. A declaration that the transfer of the land known as plot 884 later known as plot 885 Mabushi District in Abuja Federal Capital Territory by the 1st defendant to the 2nd defendant or any person is null, void and amount to fraud as the 1st defendant had transferred the land to the plaintiff first in time.

3. An order of injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, servants and privies from building, constructing or doing anything on the said land.

4, An order directing the defendants, their agents, servants, and privies to hand over the statutory righ…