Helen Prest-Ajayi has started a legal battle to claim her share of her late husband, Dr. Tosin Ajayi’s property worth billions of Naira.

Insiders told us that Helen had blocked an attempt by Dr. Tosin Ajayi’s older children to take over a property measuring 3.7 hectares of land at Ilasan, Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State.

A letter signed by Helen’s lawyer, Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), which was addressed to Ajayi’s first family lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) dated March 2, 2021, read in part;

“We are solicitors to Mrs Helen Prest-Ajayi and Miss Tomisin Ajayi, being the wife (via civil companionship) and daughter of late Dr Tosin Ajayi, the deceased beneficial owner of the property but held in the name of a company, which he was in his lifetime, the alter-ego.”

Her lawyer said that Helen was a shadow director in the company through which the deceased acquired the property.

He also argued that in Yoruba custom and tradition, when a man dies, the eldest surviving son called the ‘Dawodu’ becomes the leader of the family, but if there is going to be any important dealing with family property, “all branches of the family must be consulted and representation on the family council is per stripes (branch) according to the number of wives with children.”