CHIEF JIMOH OLUWO & ORS V. SUNDAY OBAYOMI & ORS

CHINWE EUGENIA IYIZOBA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This Appeal is against the judgment of the High Court of Ogun State sitting then at Ota Judicial Division delivered by Ojo J on the 16th day of December 2010 dismissing all the Claims of the Appellants.

THE FACTS:

In summary, the Appellants case is that the Respondents are their familys customary tenants on the piece of land known as Lobira land but which the Respondents refer to as Olorunsogo Oparabasa Village or Olorunsogo. The Appellants claim that the Respondents live in Jopolo village which is part of Lobira land; that Lobira land including Jopolo was founded by their ancestors Oluyemi and Olugayon who with their wives, children and slaves migrated from their ancestral home in Abigi to Lobira land. After sojourning in Lobira and Jopolo for some time, Oluyemi searched for and found another place Upland and invited his younger brother Olugayon to join him. Olugayon left Lobira to join his brother in the new place calle…