Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has dismissed allegations claiming that he allocated 501 hectares of land to a Ghanaian businessman, Sam Jonah, to set up River Park Estate, Abuja.

Obasanjo stated this in a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police.

In a petition he wrote to the Police in the wake of the feud over ownership of River Park Estate, Sam Jonah claimed that Obasanjo had given him the large expanse of land housing one of Abuja’s biggest Estates.

The IGP had, in a letter dated July 4, 2025, requested the former President to confirm whether the claim by Sam Jonah, that he (Obasanjo) allocated 501 hectares of land to him to develop River Park Estate, was true or false.

Responding, Obasanjo said, “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’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 the British Empire, and two other Ghanaians, Kojo Ansah and Victor Quainoo, as well as Abuja-based legal practitioner Abu Arome, have been slated for arraignment before Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi of the 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 take over Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd, Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd and also assume ownership control of River Park Estate Abuja.