Judgment day fixed in Nigeria’s battle of first ladies

Judgment day fixed in Nigeria’s battle of first ladies: Indications emerged Tuesday at an Abuja Court that the negotiated out of court settlement between the First Lady, Patience Jonathan and former First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar’ Adua, over a disputed 1.84 hectares of land in Abuja has collapsed as the court has fixed delivery of judgment in the matter for 2nd May 2013. The court had severally adjourned delivery of judgment on the matter to enable Mrs. Jonathan and Hajia Turai Yar'Adua reach a negotiated settlement but all to no avail. It informed parties in the suit that the judgment will be delivered if they fail to settle the issue themselves before that date. The decision of the court to deliver judgment on the next adjourned date followed reports that efforts to reach an amicable settlement failed after last Monday's meeting between parties with the trial judge, Justice Peter Affen, inside his Chambers. It is not however clear whether the judgment would be delivered in the open court or not as the court has been entertaining the case in Chambers for the last two adjourned dates. The disputed land, plot no. 1347 Cadastral Zone AOO, Central Business District, Abuja, FCT, was initially allocated to Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WAYEF, while Mrs. Yar’adua was First Lady, but the FCT Minister, Mr. Bala Mohammed, revoked the allocation for what he described as “overriding public interest” and reallocated it to Mrs. Jonathan for the building of African First Lady Peace Mission Headquarters on 2nd of November, 2011. Mrs. Yar’Adua complained that the land allocated to WAYEF on 19 February 2010 was being trespassed upon by Mrs. Jonathan and got a court order dated in 2012 restraining the First Lady from affecting WAYEF title and interest over the land. Those joined as co-defendants in the suit are the FCT Minister, the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS and the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF. Turai, on behalf of her organisation, WAYEF, is asking for N1.5 billion as general damages, N100 Million as exemplary damages, N100 Million as aggravated damages in addition to N261 Million already paid for Certificate of Occupancy as well as N454 Million paid for building designs. WAYEF's lawyer, Mr. Adamu Ahmed Ibrahim, observed that while it appears that the Ministry of Justice may be interested and committed to a settlement, their terms and what they offer says otherwise. According to the lawyer, the land been offered by the FCTA was a much smaller parcel of land than the one purportedly acquired from WAYEF for Mrs. Jonathan. As part of the moves to get a negotiated settlement, the Federal Capital Territory Administration had offered WAYEF Plot. 1838 Cadastral Zone AOO Abuja measuring 6119.29 square meters as replacement plot. While another plot 1839 was also proposed to be in favour of the African First Lady Mission, measuring 6100.51 square meters The said Plot nos 1838 and 1839 are subdivided from plot 700 CBD Cadastral Zone AOO, Abuja.

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