UWA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of M. A. Agbelusi, J of the Ekiti State High Court, Ikere Judicial Division, delivered on 21 January 2008.
The appellant as plaintiff before the trial court claimed against the respondents as defendants the following declaratory and injunctive reliefs:
A declaration that the purported sale or alienation of plaintiff’s familyland by the first to fifth defendants to the sixth to fifteenth defendants is illegal, unlawful ultravires , irregular, null and void and of no effect whatsoever, same having been done or carried out without the consent, authority, consensus and concurrence of plaintiff.
An order on the first to fifth defendants to render all accounts of the various plots of land sold to the sixth to fifteenth defendants and others. An order on the first to the fifth defendants to make available for inspection the survey plan, sales receipts layout plan and all the receipts of the Oshinio family land ly…