Battle of The Lord: Pastor Ayo Orisejafor Cleric Drags Fashola To Court

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Ayo Orisejafor

The Founder and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church, Pastor Ayodele Joseph Oritsejafor, has dragged the Governor of Lagos, Babatunde Fashola, to court during a bid to prevent the projected demolition of his house of God within the state.

The Pastor Ayo Orisejafor junction rectifier church filed a suit against the Lagos government and 6 others before a Lagos tribunal. The Lagos State Attorney-General, Lagos State Ministry of Physical coming up with and concrete Development, Lagos state Building management Agency, Lagos state Physical coming up with allow Authority, and Lagos state Task force on Environmental Sanitation have all been taken to court by the Word of Life Bible Church for proposing to demolish one in every of its branches at Victoria Island, Lagos.

‪The applier that is that the Incorporated Trustees of the church is urging the court for Associate in Nursing order restraining the defendants, their agents, servants, officers or privies from tearing down or more tearing down, destroying, or forcibly ejecting them.


The applier urged the court that the defendants shouldn't still take steps or in the other manner interact in any activity(ies) harmful or contrary to the rights of the possession or possession of the applier in respect of the claimants land settled at Plot 21E, Abdulrahman Okene shut, Off Ligali Ayorinde Street Victoria Island, Annex Lagos.

Word of Life Bible Church in Associate in Nursing legal instrument filed before the presiding decide, Deborah Oluwayemi, declared that that they had applied for building arrange approval from the respondents that wasn't forthcoming among the regulated amount. The claimants after through Pastor Oritsejafor created due enquires, wrote many letters, and conjointly control many conferences with the previous governor of the state, legislator Bola Tinubu and also the gift governor of Lagos state Babatunde Fashola to mapped out the building arrange approval.

In the legal instrument, the claimants claims that they received a letter in March 2013 from the defendants guiding them to submit bound documents to facilitate the method of the approval of the building that they did.

It was but whereas expecting the approval that the applier say they found that the defendants had glued an explicit resistance notice dated Gregorian calendar month twenty, 2014 on its fence, charging absence of development allow, as ground of seeking removal of the building on the land among 2 days.

In their counter-affidavit, the defendants claim that the claimants failed to fits rules and rules and commenced the erection of the structure on the same property that junction rectifier to the resistance notice served to them.

Judge, Deborah Oluwayemi adjourned the hearing to weekday, Gregorian calendar month thirteen once the counsel to the applier, Mr.A. Ndu Nwokocha, raise the court for Associate in Nursing adjournment to change him to reply to the defendants’ counter legal instrument served on him at the court.

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