By Our Reporter
Subscribers to Winhomes Estate in Okun Ajah, Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area (LG), Lagos State have formally taken possession of their lands, insisting they were the original and bona fide owners despite past ownership disputes surrounding the estate.
Briefing newsmen at a world press conference held on Tuesday at the estate ground along the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, the land owners, under the aegis of Association of Landowners in Winhomes Estate, Okun Ajah, in conjunction with the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Good Governance, stated that their decision to formally take over the land was informed by a court ruling which affirmed their ownership.
Spokesperson of the group, Chief Charles Mba stated that members legitimately purchased the plots from Winhomes Estate, fulfilled all financial requirements, and were issued all valid documents, adding that they were duly allocated the parcels, which many had taken possession of prior to the recent developments.
Chief Mba said the association decided to set the records straight following controversies that trailed the estate’s original ownership tussle with the Federal Government, noting that the matter had since been resolved, even as he described the move as a demonstration of their backing for the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
"It has become necessary to address lingering misinformation arising from past disputes relating to the ownership of the said land between Winhomes Estate Global Services Limited and the Federal Government of Nigeria.
"We wish to categorically inform the public that these issues have been finally and conclusively laid to rest by the Federal High Court, Lagos Division, in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1803/2024.
"in its composite ruling delivered on the 21st day of November, 2025, Honourable Justice Akintayo Aluko held unequivocally that: Winhomes Estate Global Services Limited had divested itself of all proprietary interests in the land by selling same to third parties," Mba stated.
Speaking further, Mba added that the court ruling affirmed that the company had consequently ceased to be the bona fide owner of the land; having divested its interest, and that Winhomes Estate Global Services Limited lacked the requisite Locus Standi to institute or maintain any action concerning the land.
The group, therefore, appealed to other land owners living abroad abroad to come forward and take possession of their lands, just as it warned members of the public to desist from any move by anybody to sell land to them in the affected area, saying that the land was already fully occupied.
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