RIDWAN MAIWADA ABDULLAHI, J.C.A. (Delivering The Leading Judgment): This is an Appeal against the Judgment of the High Court of Osun State, sitting at Ile-Ife Judicial Division (hereinafter referred as the Lower Court), coram: R. A. Shiyaneola, J, delivered on 4th October, 2018. The Appellant and the Respondents were the plaintiff and defendants before the lower Court, respectively.
The brief facts of the case which transformed into this Appeal are that the Appellant for and on behalf of himself and members of Wanikin Family of Ife, asserted that the piece of Land in dispute situated and lying at Wanikin Village, Ile-Ife, Osun State is exclusive and bonafide property of Wanikin Family of Ile-Ife. The plaintiff averred that the plaintiff and defendants were from the Royal Families of the Ooni of Ife though of different compound. That the plaintiff inherited the Land in dispute from their ancestor Ooni Laroka over 500 years ago. The plaintiff claimed that the defendants are from Agbedeg…