Lawyer drags Ambode to court, wants Lagos Sole Administrators sacked

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Lawyer drags Ambode to court, wants Lagos Sole Administrators sacked

A Lagos-based lawyer, Tope Alabi, has prayed a Federal High Court in Lagos to sack the 57 sole administrators appointed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to spearhead the affairs of the 57 local government areas in the state.

Recall that Ambode appointed the sole administrators in June this year.

However, Alabi, in his suit, asked that the appointment of sole administrations over the LGAs was a violation of the provisions of the 1999 constitution.


According to him, with the appointment, the governor had violated the political rights of the people of Lagos State preserved by the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Alabi contended that Ambode could not simply appoint sole-administrators over LGAs in Lagos when LGAs were not parastatals or boards.

Also joined as respondents in the suit are the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

The plaintiff is asking the court to stop the RMAFC from disbursing the funds due to the LGAs to the governor or anyone acting under the governor’s authority until the LGAs election had been conducted and chairmen had been elected.


The lawyer is also asking the court to direct the respondents to account for all the monies so far disbursed to the LGAs.