<p><strong> BADA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): </strong> This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja inSuit No. FCT/HC/CV/198/07 delivered on 23 July 2008.</p><p>The appellant as plaintiff by an action commenced at the lower court claimed against the respondents the following reliefs:</p><p>“(i) A declaration that the demolition of the plaintiff’s property at Plot 49, Aminu Kano Crescent, Maitama District, Abuja by the defendants herein and allocating same to the 3rd party in spite of approval given to the plaintiff prior to construction is unjust, arbitrary, high-handed, oppressive, wrongful and amounts to breach of contract between the plaintiff and the defendants having regard to the terms of allocation of the said plot in the letter of offer dated 22 February 2001 from the defendants to the plaintiff herein. (ii) An order directingthe defendants herein to pay the plaintiff a total sum of N45,000,000.00 (forty-five million naira) compensation beingthe value…</p>