Court evacuates Nwobodo from his Abuja rented home

Firstclass newsline gathered that a Federal Capital Territory High
Court in Abuja has ordered a former governor of Anambra State, Jim
Nwobodo, to vacate his rented home in Maitama, Abuja, over his failure
to pay his due rent of about N11m arrears.
Justice S. B Belgore ordered Nwobodo to relinquish the property
located at 24 Ona Crescent, Plot 768 Cadastral Zone A5, Maitama Abuja,
to the owner, Adin-Miles International Limited.
The property is said to be a six bedroom mansion with one bedroom
guest chalet and two rooms boys quarters.
The court ordered Nwobodo to pay the N11m arrears due from June 1,
2009 till May 31, 2011 when the suit was instituted and other sums of
money covering the period before the judgment was delivered.
The court had delivered the judgment on March 3, 2015, but a copy of
it was only sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday.
The suit was said to have been instituted after many failed attempts
to get Nwobodo to pay the accumulated rent.
The landlord had then asked a lawyer, Mr Obinna Ajoku, to institute
the suit, after futile efforts by the landlord.
In the court's judgment, the judge granted all the reliefs sought by
the plaintiff, including an order that Mwobodo "should deliver vacant
possession" of the property to the plaintiff.
The court also ordered that he should pay the sum of N11m as rent
arrears and that he should pay "mense profi at the rate of four
hundred and fifty eight thousand, three hundred and thirty-three Naira
only per month from June 1, 2011 until judgment was delivered".
The court also ordered him to renovate the premises or pay N3m to the
plaintiff for the same purpose.
"I have no hesitation therefore in granting all the reliefs of the
plaintiff/defendant and dismissing the counter-claim of the
defendant," the judge had held.
The plaintiff was said to have sometime in 2008 bought the property
from one Alhaji Al-Mustapha Abubakar who had earlier leased the
property to Nwobodo.
Nwobodo had stated in his counter-claim that while the property was
offered for sale, he expressed intention to purchase it but that he
could not make any payment because the plaintiff induced his landlord
to sell the property to it.
Firstclassnewsline.net