The management of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Police Force, demanding a public apology and a total payment of ₦3.5 billion in damages.
According to the management, the compensation is to atone for the immense damage caused to the reputation, business, and financial standing of former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Salient Times reports that operatives of the EFCC Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, at about 2 am on Sunday, stormed the facility and arrested 93 youths, seizing 18 vehicles and mobile devices during a “Wet & Rave Splash Extravaganza” party held at the OOPL Rounda fun spot.
According to the management, the operatives, led by one “Olapade” in a gestapo-like gang of over 50 armed men, invaded the premises, shooting guns and threatening to kill people, thereby causing panic, chaos, and serious injuries among participants who were trying to escape the shooting.
The Managing Director, Vitalis Ortese, at a press conference on Wednesday, also demanded that those arrested and whose vehicles were taken away receive immediate compensation for the damage they endured, as well as a sum of N1 billion as payment for any bodily injuries sustained.
Ortese noted that failure to do so within the next seven days would leave the facility with no choice but to seek redress in a court of law.
They added that EFCC and the Nigeria Police Force must issue separate public apologies to be widely published across all major media platforms, adding that the officers stationed at OOPL were not briefed, respected, or included in the operation.
He said, “Both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Nigeria Police Force (NPF) are jointly and severally liable for the deliberate embarrassing and utterly malicious damage occasioned by their invasion of the 9th and 10th August, 2025 as aforestated.
”We are fully persuaded that the acts are not only aggravated, unconstitutional, oppressive, capricious and arbitrary, the actions are also clearly actuated by malice against the institution of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library and also of its Chief Promoter HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR who was Head of State (1976-1979) and President of Nigeria (1999-2007).
“The foregoing actions are clearly calculated not only to oppress and brutalise as well as violate in gross terms, the fundamental and other rights of the more than one hundred (100) persons as aforestated; but also calculated to wreak maximum damage on the legitimate, commercial business and financial interests of our Client as well as damage the standing of our Client and its Chief Promoter in the eyes of right thinking members of the public both in Nigeria and internationally.
“We therefore DEMAND a comprehensive investigation be undertaken by all relevant Security Agencies with their reports openly published, especially regarding the brutalization of our patrons being citizens who had apparently done nothing wrong nor apparently infracted any law other than engaging in a party as allowed under the law.
“That relevant authorities of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, particularly the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the one hand, and the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force on the other, both issue separate public apologies to be widely published in all major media platforms including television, the print as well as social outfits inclusive of X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, Channels, AIT, NTA, TVC, Arise as well major newspaper and news magazines including Premium Times and Sahara Reporters.
“That immediate restitution for the damage caused, be made to those persons who were arrested and whose vehicle were carted away by the invasion force of the Police and EFCC, as well as for bodily injuries suffered by these persons numbering at least one hundred (100); be paid in the amount of at least one billion naira.
“We also demand that a further two billion and five hundred million naira (N 2.5 billion) be paid in token acknowledgment and atonement for the immense damage caused to the reputation, business and our financial reputation as well to the reputation of our Chief Promoter (HE Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR).
“Finally, we have further instructed our lawyers that should these demands not be met in full within the next seven (7) days from today, Wednesday August 13th 2025, we shall have no alternative but to proceed to seek redress in a competent court of law without further recourse to the Police and the EFCC; and in which case our demands will NOT be limited to the foregoing.”
Meanwhile, the OOPL Legal Adviser, Olumide Ayeni, SAN, disclosed that evidence was available, including a beret and bullet shell fired, demonstrating that there had been indiscriminate shooting.
Ayeni added that ballistic experts would determine the number of guns fired, based on the recovered pellets.
He also accused the operatives of attempting to destroy evidence by seizing and smashing patrons’ phones.
