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  • ‘How my grandson was kidnapped in church’

    A witness, Mrs Gladys Alaegbu, yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that her four-year-old grandson, Joshua, was kidnapped in a Lagos church in 2015, during a workers’ meeting.

    Alaegbu, a worker in Amazing Grace Pentecostal Church, Palmgrove, Lagos, testified as the second prosecution witness in the trial of a suspected serial kidnapper, Gabriel Ogunsawe.

    According to the Lagos State Government, Ogunsawe and his accomplices, who are on the run, kidnapped Joshua on February 1, 2015 and released him a day later, after obtaining a N300,000 ransom and N3000 airtime.
    His arraignment at an Ebute-Meta Magistrates’ Court in 2015 and re-arraingment at the High Court in 2017 followed his arrest in May 2015, by the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (SCIID), Panti, Lagos.

    The offences contravened sections 261 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, according to the prosecution. The defendant pleaded not guilty.

    Ogunsawe was allegedly sent to Kirikiri Prison in 2013 for his part in a similar offence.
    At the commencement of yesterday’s proceedings, Alaegbu testified as the second prosecution witness while being led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Bisayo Apata.

    “My grandson was kidnapped inside the church on February 1,” the witness said.
    She explained that following the conclusion of the day’s service, she stayed back to attend a workers’ meeting and handed Joshua her bag and found him a seat behind her.
    Alaegbu said: “I looked back several times and saw him playing. But after we did the closing prayers, I did not see him again.”

    She said only her bag was on the chair. After looking for him without success, she ran home to inform her husband that the boy was missing.  Together, they proceeded to the nearby Pedro Police Station, Palmgrove which refused to take her statement.  “The police said we had to wait for 24 hours,” Alaegbu explained.

    The witness said they returned to the church where they were informed that the kidnapper had been in touch with the clergyman, ‘Pastor Joshua.’

    “I stayed there till 8pm before leaving for home. The pastor told us the kidnappers were still calling, mentioning a ransom. I was crying throughout,” she said, adding that they threatened to hand over Joshua to money ritualists at Ijebu Ode, in Ogun State, if the family or church failed to raise the ransom.

    The next day, they returned to the church, where at about 3:30pm, “I received a call from my compound, one of my neighbours said the police had found Joshua.”

    The police left a note asking her to come to the Onikan Police Station, where she recovered Joshua.
    She added: “Three months after Joshua was found, I received a call from Panti. They told me to come with Joshua. That’s where I saw the defendant.”

    Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay adjourned further proceedings till April 4.

  •  Again lawyers stall Evans’ trial

    For the second time in 30 days, the trial of suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, was stalled at a Lagos High Court in Igbosere, yesterday, following the absence of a defence counsel.

    Evans’ lawyer, Chino Obiagwu (SAN), did not make an appearance but sent a letter informing Justice Adedayo Akintoye of his absence.

    No member of Evans’ legal team, including Olanrewaju Ajanaku, was present.

    Consequently, the judge adjourned till March 22 at 10am for address by counsel for trial within trial.

    The adjournment, the second consecutively, followed that of January 31, foisted on the court by the non-appearance of another defence counsel, Emmanuel Ochai, following which the judge adjourned till yesterday.

    At the commencement of proceedings, yesterday, prosecution counsel, Y. G. Oshoala, drew the court’s attention to the absence of Evans’ counsel and Ochai’s January 31st non-appearance.

    “This is not the first time such is happening. The Supreme Court stated that the court is not a slave of time that must wait for a party to come and present his case. We submit that the court cannot wait for them,” Oshoala said.

    He directed the court’s mind to the need to do justice to all parties,” the state, the defendant, the public.”

    But making an order for adjournment, Justice Akintoye said: “I’ve noted your observation. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt because the defence counsel is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). I assume he is not just wasting the time of the court.”

    The judge made the same order in a related case involving Evans. The defendant is facing two separate charges, bordering on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder, before Justice Akintoye.

    In the first charge, he is standing trial alongside Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.

    The quartet were arraigned on June 26, 2018, following the dismissal of Evans’ objection to a five-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping and attempted murder, preferred against them by the Lagos State Government.

    The defendants and others at large, allegedly committed the offences on September 7, 2015, at Seventh Avenue, Festac Town, Lagos.

    They allegedly conspired and kidnapped Chief James Uduji, obtained a ransom of $1.2million and shot him on the shoulder while trying to kill him.

    In the second charge, he is joined on trial with Joseph Emeka, Linus Okpara and Victor Aduba.

  • Alleged murder: Danish is police’s prime suspect, says witness

    A prosecution witness, Babashola Afolayan, yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that its prime suspect in the murder of Nigerian singer Zainab Nielsen and her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra, is Peter Schau Nielsen, her Danish husband.

    Afolayan, a police inspector, testified before Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile in Nielsen’s trial following Zainab and Petra’s death on April 5 at the couple’s Banana Island, Lagos, home.

    Nielsen, 53, was charged with the killings last June 13, on two counts of murder, contrary to Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Five people were said to be in the apartment on the night of the incident: Nielsen, Zainab, Petra, Gift and Favour Madaki, both of whom are Zainab’s stepsisters.

    Read also: Police vow to arrest killers of Okowa’s aide

    Lagos Attorney-General (A-G) and Commissioner for Justice Kazeem Adeniji SAN, told Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile that Nielsen beat up and smothered Zainab and Petra to death about 3:45am at No. 4, Flat 17, Bella Vista Tower, Banana Island, Ikoyi.

    Nielsen denied the charge.

    Following the continuation of trial yesterday, Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Titilayo Shitta-Bey re-introduced Afolayan as the state’s 7th witness.

    Shitta-Bey, on January 16, concluded her examination of Afolayan, following which the court adjourned till yesterday for the witness to be cross-examined by the defence.

    During cross-examination by defence counsel Mr. Olasupo Shasore SAN, the witness said he was on the crime scene between 9am and 5:09pm on April 5, 2018.

    He testified that the Police identified Nielsen as its principal suspect following investigation of the scene of the crime, among other factors.

    When Shashore, a former Lagos State Attorney-General, asked the policeman whether he questioned the couple’s neighbours, investigated the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) on the premises, or checked the phones and checked for fingerprints, the witness said he did not see any other suspect, as the defendant was the only suspect.

    Afolayan told the court that the defendant was the only suspect because, among others, his wife had earlier made allegations of battery against him.

    He said about 2am on July 18, 2017, Zainab came to the Ikoyi Police Station to file an assault complaint against Nielsen.

    The witness said: “On July 18, 2017, the defendant’s wife came around 2am and complained about the defendant that at about 1am, he pushed her to the bed, pressed her neck and beat her up. It was a case of assault and occasioning harm against the defendant. She further reported that that day’s incident was the third time.

    “She added that she suspects that he is a drug addict, because whenever he took drugs, he beat her up. All of these made him to be the principal suspect.”

    Following the conclusion of cross-examination, Justice Okikiolu-Ighile adjourned further hearing till February 20.

  • Accountant files N50m ‘libel’ suit against Queens College PTA

    Accountant files N50m ‘libel’ suit against Queens College PTA

    An accountant, Adelani Afolabi, has filed a N50 million ‘libel’ suit against the chairman of the Queens College (QC) Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), Lagos, John Ofobike and 11 others.

    Afolabi, a former treasurer of the PTA, filed the suit at the Lagos High Court in Igbosere, through his counsel Rotimi Igbayiola.

    Joined as second to 12th defendants are: Vice Chairman, Yetunde Shittu; probe panel chairman, Tajudeen Oyekunle Amodu and PTA members including Victor Onukwe, Eyilayo Amodi, Catherine Temitope Nwadu and Martha Ezeh Nwafor.

    Others are: Kingsley Okori, Oladejo Sarafadeen Abiodun, Okeke Chinyere Eucharia, Charles Amadi and the Incorporated Trustees of PTA, QC, Yaba.

    According to his November 17 statement of claim, Afolabi, a former parent at QC, was PTA treasurer between 2013 and 2016.

    He averred that he and members of the Exco in which he served were witch-hunted and defamed by a probe panel consisting of the third to 10th defendants.

    He said: “I was invited by the probe panel but was not allowed to offer any meaningful explanation as to my roles as the treasurer between 2013-2016.

    “On July 9, 2017 at the Annual General Meeting of the PTA of Queen’s College, the report of the said probe panel was circulated among dignitaries and parents whereat I was personally defamed and described as fraudulent by the defendants.

    “After the said publication I forwarded a comprehensive report of the financial activities of tenure under review to the Chairman of the Fact finding Committee who is third defendants in this suit and asked him to publish a retraction.”

    Afolabi said contrary to the committee’s allegation that there was no proper documentation of the activities of their tenure, proper records were kept.

    According to him, the administration under which he served built and bequeathed to Queen’s College, a world-class hostel “which no individual, administration and/or government in history has ever built.”

    He listed other feats by the administration including the construction of VIP toilets and purchase of three buses to ease transportation problems of the Queen’s College.

    Aside a claim for N50m as damages for emotional distress and loss of professional goodwill allegedly caused by the defendants’ action, the claimant is seeking three other reliefs.

    They include: “An order directing the defendants to jointly and severally write a letter of apology to the claimant in respect of the misleading publication.

    “An directing the defendants to jointly and severally publish in two reputable-newspapers a public apology and retraction regarding the personality of the claimant.”

    The defendants are yet to file their defence.

    At the commencement of proceedings Wednesday, neither the defendants nor their counsel were present.

    Igbayiola told Justice Ibironke Harrison that seven of the defendants appeared to be evading service.

    He said: “We’ve been able to serve the first, second, third, ninth and 10th defendants. We have not been able to serve the others.”

    He prayed the court to allow him make one more attempt to serve the defendants following which an application would be brought for substituted service.

    Igbayiola said: “We intend to come under Order 7 of the Lagos State Civil Procedure Rules 2012 for an application for substituted service.”

    Granting his prayer, Justice Harrison adjourned till March 28, for further directions.

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  • Otodo Gbame: Court refuses to jail governor, CP Owoseni for contempt

    Otodo Gbame: Court refuses to jail governor, CP Owoseni for contempt

    A Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, has dismissed an application by thousands of displaced residents of several Lagos waterfront settlements seeking the committal to prison of Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Commissioner of Police (CP) Fatai Owoseni and two others for contempt.

    Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo ruled yesterday that according to Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) the governor, who was the third respondent, had constitutional immunity from prosecution and imprisonment.

    This, he added, meant that the court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the application against him.
    Attorney-General of Lagos and Commissioner for Justice Kazeem Adeniji, Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, and the CP are the first, second and fourth respondents respectively.

    The judge ruled further that the other respondents, having acted under the clear order and direct supervision of the governor, they could not be said to be the contemnors.

    The court added that following the concession by applicants’ counsel, Friday Oteiku, and defence counsel S. A. Quadri that mediation between the parties had broken down, he would go ahead and deliver judgment in the substantive suit on April 25.

    The application was instituted by 33 applicants suing on behalf of themselves and other residents of settlements including Otodo Gbame, Tomaro, Otumara, Orisunmibare, Oko Agbon, Itun Atan, Sogunro, the Ikorodu communities of Ofin, Bayeku and Olufunke Majidun and the Bariga communities of Ago Egun and Ebute-Ilaje.

    They claimed through their counsel, Friday Oteiku, that the respondents breached an order of last November 7 and 16restraining them “from demolishing any of the applicants’ “homes, business premises, properties or community facilities in waterfront communities across Lagos State inhabited by the applicants or evicting the applicants therefrom.”

    The applicants, hundreds of whom besieged the court yesterday, also claimed that as recently as January 26, the respondents further disobeyed the court’s order that “parties shall maintain the status quo…pending the final resolution of issues between them either upon conclusion of mediation as directed by the court or the final determination of this suit.”

    In proof of their allegation, they stated that their communities were demolished by two excavators brought by members of the Lagos State Task Force comprising soldiers, military police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp and police officers.

    According to the applicants, a Task Force official stated that “This is Lagos State, we don’t obey court orders, take it to the governor,” while pointing to a Rapid Response Squad helicopter flying overhead through which the governor was said to be allegedly monitoring the operation.

    Ruling, Justice Onigbanjo said: “Much as the court empathises with the applicants’ rights and would ordinarily take all steps within the ambit of the law to protect the sanctity of judicial authority and the rule of law, the facts and circumstances of this case, in my opinion, regrettably place a constitutional barrier to any such exercise of judicial power.”

    He noted that it is settled law that committal proceedings are criminal/quasi-criminal which lead to imprisonment of the alleged contemnors if found guilty.

    “Under those circumstances, I think that not only must the facts alleged in proof of contempt of court be proven beyond reasonable doubt, in this particular instance, because the respondents’ actions complained about as allegedly carried out with the direct supervision of the third respondent, who happens to be the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution unequivocally forbids the court from entertaining this manner of application or any other criminal proceedings against the occupant of that office so long as he remains in office.

    “Now, because it is clear from the affidavit evidence adduced by the applicant that the third respondent ordered the actions complained about in flagrant disobedience of the above-stated directives of this court, then it must follow that the other respondents in this suit cannot really be said to be in contempt of this court or to be said to have caused the actions complained about.

    “I would observe that reprehensible as the actions complained about in this application are, the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain these committal proceedings against the third respondent, and by implication, the other respondents by virtue of the immunity afforded the third respondent by Section 308 of the Constitution.”

    Following the ruling, Quadri, the Lagos State Director of Civil Litigation, stated that contrary to Oteiku’s claims that the claimants were the first settlers on the land, the plaintiffs had no title to the land whatsoever.

    He explained that the court order directing the parties to maintain the status quo was disobeyed by the plaintiffs who continued to build on the land.

    But Justice Onigbanjo, who expressed grave concern if it was true that the governor deliberately disobeyed a court order, stated that the government and its lawyers had a higher moral burden in this instance.

    He asked: “Are you saying that because a child is rolling in sand, you, an adult, will also roll in the sand? This court will expect a higher level of compliance from this (government’s) side than from the other side.”

  • ‘Ex boyfriend murdered my fiancée,’ businessman tells court

    ‘Ex boyfriend murdered my fiancée,’ businessman tells court

    A businessman, Uchechukwu Orji, yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere, that his fiancée, simply called ‘Ijeoma’, was allegedly murdered by her ex boyfriend, Ifeanyi Christian.

    Orji, who testified yesterday as the second prosecution witness in Christian’s trial before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, said Ijeoma, 26, was declared missing on January 12, 2013, but was found dead four days later.

    Christian, an apprentice spare parts trader at ASPAMDA, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo, Lagos is being prosecuted by the state for Ijeoma’s death.

    Led in evidence by State Counsel, Mrs A. A. Saromi, Orji said he was formally engaged to the deceased, who was a food vendor, and that they had made plans to get married.

    He said Ijeoma travelled to her home town in the east in December 2012, for the Christmas and New Year celebrations but visited him at his home in the Ojo area of Lagos, on her return on Friday, January 11, 2013.

    The witness testified that while they were discussing in his room, the deceased’s phone kept ringing but she ignored it and when he asked her who it was, “she said the caller was just a friend.”

    He said he insisted on knowing who it was and she eventually told him the caller was her ex boyfriend, Ifeanyi Christian, who was trying to renew their relationship.

    She also told him, the witness added, that Christian wanted her to come over to his house, but that he forbade her.

    Orji said he saw the deceased off to where she boarded a motorbike to her neighbourhood in Agboju, Ojo Local Government Area. He phoned her when she got to Alakija Bus Stop, near her home and also spoke to her elder sister, who she ran into at the bus stop.

    The witness said the following day, a Saturday, he called her number from about 4pm till about 7pm but there was no response. He decided to give her some time because he thought she was probably attending to customers at her shop.

    “At about 10pm, when I called her line again and didn’t get any response, I became very worried. I then called Ijeoma’s sister who told me that she was probably busy at work. The sister called me back to tell me that she had checked and couldn’t find her sister. We started searching for her that night and continued the search on Sunday morning to no avail,” he said.

    Orji said the next day the deceased’s friend named Joy, told him she met Ijeoma the day before while the deceased was on her way to return a bottle of acid which the defendant kept in her possession. Joy also told him that the defendant worked at a shop at ASPAMDA at the Trade Fair Complex, Ojo.

     

    “On Monday, I went straight to the place where she directed me and I met an elderly man, who told me to check Ifeanyi in the shop, but Ifeanyi wasn’t there. So, I went back to the man, and he gave me a seat and asked me to wait for Ifeanyi. He said the defendant was his apprentice and asked me if there was a problem and I said yes, there was a murder case,” the witness stated.

    Orji said when the defendant showed up at the market and was questioned about the deceased, he fled but was arrested by security officials at the complex and taken to FESTAC Police Station. He added that defendant later told them that Ijeoma was dead.

    Justice Taiwo adjourned the case till October 24, for continuation of trial and possible cross examination by defence counsel, Mr. T. A. Jiakpona.

     

  • NIMASA paid me N93m without contract – Witness

    NIMASA paid me N93m without contract – Witness

    A Bureau-de-Change operator, Wakili Daudu Monday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) paid N93,394,680 into his account without him bidding for a contract.

    Daudu, the fifth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former NIMASA Director-General, Patrick Akpobolokemi and six others, said the money was transferred in two tranches of N35, 688,000 and N61, 394,680.

    Speaking through an interpreter, Daudu said: “I don’t know anybody in NIMASA and I have never bidded for any contract in NIMASA, but millions of naira was paid into my account.”

    Akpobolokemi was arraigned by the EFCC alongside Captain Ezekiel Agaba, Ekene Nwakuche, Governor Amechee Juan, Vincent Udoye, Captain Adegboyega Sahib Olopoenia and a company, Gama Maine Nigeria Limited.

    The first to fifth defendants (Akpobolokemi, Captain Agaba, Nwakuche, Jun, Udoye) are alleged to have between October 30, 2014 and May 6, 2015 converted to their personal use N346, 844,680.00 property of NIMASA meant for the implementation of Voluntary International Maritime Organisation Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS).

    They are standing trial on a 13-count charge of stealing and forgery, preferred against them by EFCC.

    The witness testified before Justice Raliat Adebiyi that he was contacted by one Mohammed Darlington that his boss, Captain Ezekiel Agaba, wanted to convert some money to dollars.

    Led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel Rotimi Oyedepo, Daudu stated that on October 30, 2014 the sum of N35, 688,000 was paid into his account by Darlington, who claimed to be working for the second defendant.

    Later the same day, the sum of N61, 394,680 was also transferred into his account, he added.
    He further testified that the money was changed into dollars and handed over to Darlington.
    The matter has been adjourned till today for continuation of trial.

  • Five years’ jail: Ibinabo fails to get bail at Appeal Court

    Five years’ jail: Ibinabo fails to get bail at Appeal Court

    Convicted former beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima, Thursday failed in her bid to secure bail at the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, due to an incompetent application.

    A three man-panel of the Appeal Court presided over by Justice U.I. Ndukwe-Anyanwu observed that the appellant failed to attach copies of the judgment delivered by the court last Friday, which affirmed the five years’ jail sentence imposed on her by a Lagos High Court in Igbosere.

    Other Judges on the panel are Justice Samuel Oseji and Justice Tijani Abubakar respectively.

    The Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN) president has also told the Supreme Court that she is recuperating from breast surgery and that staying in prison would endanger her life.

    When the matter came up Thursday at the Appeal Court, Ibinabo’s lawyer, Nnaemeka Amaechina informed that court of his client’s application dated March 14, which had already been served on the Lagos State Government (respondent).

    However, the application could not be heard as the court observed that the appellant’s failure to attach copies of the judgment as exhibit rendered the whole application incompetent.

    Justice Ndukwe-Anyanwu said the only option left was to strike out the application or adjourn it till another date for hearing.

    Consequently, Amaechina sought for an adjournment to enable him do the needful and the court adjourned the matter till April 7 for hearing of the bail application.

    Meanwhile, the actress has asked the Supreme Court to set aside the judgement of the lower court.

    In her Notice of Appeal, the appellant stated that Court of Appeal erred in law when it affirmed the decision of the High Court of Lagos State by setting aside the option of N100, 000 fine and substituting it with a term of five years’ imprisonment.

    The appellant further stated that the Court of Appeal erred in law when it affirmed the “interference by the High Court with the exercise of discretion by the trial Magistrates’ Court.”

    She added that the “judgment of the Court of Appeal is unreasonable and cannot be supported having regard to the evidence presented before the court.”

    In a six-paragraph affidavit of urgency deposed to by one Victor Eden, the deponent stated that Ibinabo is currently recovering from surgery and that she recently removed a tumour from her breast and that she needed constant monitoring by her doctors.

    “Her wound has not fully healed and as such she is afraid that her continued stay in the prison may endanger her life as she will not have access to special medical attention”, he stated.

    The deponent stated that it would be in the interest of justice and for her health and safety to admit Ibinabo to bail pending the hearing and determination of her appeal before the Supreme Court.

    The embattled actress was sentenced to five years imprisonment by Justice Deborah Oluwayemi for reckless driving which caused the death of one Dr. Giwa Suraj in an auto accident along the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos. Dissatisfied, Fiberesima in her amended appellant brief filed by her lawyer, Nnaemeka Amaechina urged the court to set aside the five-year sentence and restore the decision of the Magistrates’ Court.

    But the appellate court in its judgment delivered on February 11, dismissed Ibinabo’s appeal and affirmed the decision of the Lagos High Court.

     

  • Court orders LGA elections in Lagos

    Court orders LGA elections in Lagos

    The Lagos High Court in Igbosere has ordered that new elections be conducted in all the Local Government Areas of Lagos State within 30 days.

    In the ruling, Justice Abdulfatai Lawal gave the ruling in the judgment delivered in a case filed by National Conscience Party, challenging the legalities of caretaker committees administrating over the affairs of Local Government.

    “I call upon the Lagos State Government to immediately implement the judgment of the court by dismantling all the illegal structures of local government caretaker committees.

    “I also call upon all state governments where the local governments are being manned by administrators to conduct elections immediately.”

    Now that the gavel has been slammed, it is important for the Lagos State ruling party APC to put its house in order as credible elections, into Local Government Councils have been non-existent since 2004 even within the same political party till date.

    This is because the local councils are often subjected to controls by some wards in the local governments of the state with the backing of the strong and mighty of the party all the way to choosing political office holders, either appointed or elected from their local government.

    While Lagos State as a state has been relatively peaceful, the same cannot be said of its local governments due to this sharing formula of political offices such as chairmanship, councillorship, members house of representatives, house of assembly as well as other local government functionaries across all the wards in most of the local government of the state.

    For example, in Surulere Local Government, where political office holders either by appointment or elected have been monopolised by four wards out of the nine political wards, have not been fair in the sharing/ zoning of political offices.

    Party faithfully, politicians and residents of the sidelined wards have been seen had no  grumbling over the sheer high handedness by the politically mighty in the state to limit these key  offices to just four wards namely G, G1, G2,and G3 the chairmanship which is causing internal divide among members of the APC at the grassroots level.

    Right from 2004 that Surulere started its journey through the wilderness of democracy, all the fruits of the labour and sweat by the nine wards are enjoyed by these four wards only. For example,

    2004- 2007

     

    1. Council Chairman Alhaji Wazee Utman Ward E
    2. Vice Chairman Agboola Dabiri Ward G2
    3. To The L.G  Yomi Odubekun Ward F1
    4. To The L.G   Gafar Agboluaje Ward F3
    5. Leader of The Council Billy Balogun Ward G2
    6. Leader of The Council Afis Kasumu Ward E
    7. Deputy Leader Gbenga Gbamgbade Ward F2
    8. Deputy Leader Ganiat Alli Balogun Ward F3
    9. Majority Leader Waheed Azeez Ward G1
    10. Majority Leader Segun Posu  Ward F1
    11. Chief Whip Afis Kasumu Ward E
    12. Chief Whip Gbolahan Oduntan Ward E1
    13. Super Agric Bolaji Fehintola Ward G
    14. Super Education  Laide Dawodu Ward G2
    15. Super Health  Kunle Akinseyinwa                          Ward E
    16. House of Assembly Lateef Shitabey Ward G1
    17. House of Reps Femi Gbajabiamilah  Ward G2
    18. Executive Secetary Leg Ajaguna Ward G3

    2007-2011

    1. Council Chairman Rasaq Folami Ward G
    2. Vice Chairman Tajudeen Ajide Ward G1
    3. To The L.G   Funmi Braithwaith  Ward G2
    4. Leader of The Council Gbolahan Oduntan Ward E
    5. Deputy Leader Soji Okikiade  Ward F3
    6. Majority Leader Fouad Ipaye  Ward G1
    7. Chief Whip Segun Desalu                                   Ward G3
    8. Super Agric Muritala Bolarinwa Ward G1
    9. Super Education Jolasun Ward F1
    10. Super Health  Suleiman Yusuf Ward G2
    11. Super Works Lanre Atunse Ward   E
    12. House of Reps Femi Gbajabiamilah  Ward G2
    13. Chairman Board LAWMA Taofik Folami Ward G2
    14. Governor Babatunde Fashola Ward G3
    15. APC State PRO Joe Igbokwe  Ward G2
    16. Executive Secetary Leg  Ajaguna Ward G3
    17. House of Assembly Kabiru Lawal Ward G1

     

    2011-2014

    1. Council Chairman Tajudeen Ajide Ward G2
    2. Vice Chairman Suleiman Yusuf Ward G2
    3. Sec. To The L.G Funmi Braithwaith Ward G2
    4. Leader of the Council Segun Ijitola         Ward G
    5. Deputy Leader Taiwo Edun Ward G3
    6. Majority Leader Fouad Ipaye Ward G
    7. Chief Whip              Ward
    8. Super Agric Fouad Edidi Ward f2
    9. Super Education Rasaq Bello Ward E
    10. Super Health/V. Chair Suleiman Yusuf Ward G2
    11. Super Works Habeeb Danmola Ward E
    12. House of Assembly Kabiru Lawal  Ward G1
    13. House of Reps Femi Gbajabiamilah Ward G2
    14. Special Adviser for Environment             Ward G2
    15. Governor Babatunde Fashola Ward G3
    16. APC PRO Joe Igbokwe  Ward G2
    17. S. A Energy Fouad Animashaun Ward G3
    18. S. A health Yewande Adeshina                           Ward G3
    19. Coordinating S.A Billy Balogun Ward G 2
    20. S.A Revenue Jamiu Suleiman Ward G2
    21. Supervisor Aigoro Tax and Revenue Ward G2

     

    And in 2015

    1. Executive Secretary Bamidele Husain Ward G
    2. Member Tunde Odunsi                              Ward G2
    3. Member Sule Yusuf                                       Ward G2
    4. Member Abiodun Animashaun                              Ward G1
    5. Member Mahmud Dawodu                   Ward G3
    6. Commissioner water front/infrastructure           Ward G2
    7. Special Adviser CBD Agbo Dabiri                            Ward G2
    8. House of Reps Femi Gbajabiamilah    Ward G2
    9. House of Assembly Desmond Elliot Ward F3

     

    According to this table, within a period of thirteen years, only three wards in Surulere Local Government produced 46 Political offices out of the 65 mentioned above. This isadjudged to have no semblance of not being fair.

    It has also been observed that the key positions namely;

    1. Representing Surulere 1, Federal house of Representative.
    2. Member Representing Surulere 1, Lagos state of Assembly
    3. The Executive Chairman Surulere Local Government
    4. The Vice Chairman Surulere Local Government
    5. The Council Leader
    6. The Deputy Council Leader
    7. The Secetary to the Local Government
    8. Lagos State Cabinet Appointments
    9. Key APC Positions at State or Local Governments.

    A not too fair of about 90% of this positions have been dominated by these 4 wards.( The G Wards)

    It is of paramount importance for APC as a party to keep every member of the party part of the big family and this can only be achieved when the sweet fruits of our democracy are enjoyed by all.Good governance based on transparency and accountability , candidates emerging true a democratic process, whereby a popular candidate will be fielded,are the only factors that could keep the APC from losing the local government seat to the opposition party which is gradually gaining their strength from the loss of the number one position of the country because every member of the party at the grass root level wants to be identified with; not only as a “card carrying member” of the party but as a true representative of the local government system of government. Local Government administration in governance brings the government closer to the people.