Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied claims that he allocated 501 hectares of land to Ghanaian businessman Sam Jonah for the development of River Park Estate in Abuja.
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His clarification came in a response letter dated July 10, 2025, addressed to the Inspector General of Police.
The IGP had earlier, in a letter dated July 4, 2025, asked Obasanjo to confirm the authenticity of Sam Jonah’s claim that the former president approved the land allocation for the estate project.
Sam Jonah had claimed in a petition he wrote to the police in the wake of the dispute over ownership of River Park Estate that Obasanjo gave him the large expanse of land housing one of Abuja’s biggest housing estates.
However, acting on the petition relating to the ownership of River Park Estate in Lugbe and its affiliate companies, the police after a discreet investigation released its forensic report dated November 29, 2024, and a final report dated 27th June, 2025.
“The claim of Sam Jonah that I invited him to allocate 501 hectares of land to him or his company or one single plot of land for that matter is absolutely untrue, fictitious, misleading and libelous,” Obasanjo stated in the reply letter.
Obasanjo’s response is said by police to be consistent with his earlier letter dated 1st July 2025, wherein he asserted that if Sam Jonah said he allocated any land to him at all, he’s completely mistaken in his recollection.
Based on the investigation report, Jonah, a Knight of British Empire and two other Ghanaians, namely – Kojo Ansah and Victor Quainoo – as well as an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Abu Arome – have been slated for arraignment before Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi of High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, over their alleged complicity in the forgery of company document files at the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja
They are to be docked alongside a company, Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd for forgery in a bid to illegally takeover Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd, Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd and also assume ownership control of River Park Estate Abuja.
Police alleged that while the response of former President Obasanjo was being awaited on the disputed land matter, an Abuja lawyer, Abu Arome, falsely claimed in the media that the Inspector General of Police had ordered fresh investigation into an already concluded investigation.
The claim and counter claim on the estate land dispute prompted police to file a I26-count charge against those found culpable for the forgery of company documents and filing same at the CAC Abuja.
The charge by the police was signed by one Isa Garba, prosecuting counsel in the Legal Department of the Force Headquarters in Abuja, and marked CR/402/2025.
In the charge, the IGP alleged that the accused persons had illegally increased the company’s share capital and allocated 99 million shares to themselves using falsified documents and forged signatures and also falsely presenting themselves as Nigerian ‘citizens to the Corporate Affairs Commission to facilitate their alleged fraudulent activities.
In a bid to prove its case of fraud, forgery, impersonation and others against the defendants, the police listed several exhibits in the charge.
Also attached to the charge are copies of final police investigation report and statements of the defendants as well as a letter of relinquishment of 8,000,000 shares allegedly signed by John Townley Johnson.
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