Lagos Country Club crisis: Federal High Court updates the hearing

The crisis that swing the Lagos Country Club [LCC] It must yet be resolved, contrary to speculations in some quarters.

Three causes involving LCC are underway before a federal court [FHC] In Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Court has updated the hearing in the causes to July 15, 2025.

The Chancellor of the Court, in a notice of Tuesday 10 June 2025, gave the new date of 15 July 2025 for further hearings in seeds, to Wit: FHC/L/CS/1704/24 ADMOSUU V. Reg. Trustees LCC; FHC/L/CS/1792/24 FAHASHANU V. Reg. Trustes LCC and FHC/L/CS/657/25 Timmy Kolawole V. Reg. Trustees LCC.

The hearing in the causes was initially updated to June 9, 2025, but due to the holidays of Sallah declared for Friday 6 and Monday 9 June 2025, it was further updated.

The Lagos Country Club was involved in a series of crises that opened in February last year after some members of the deceased management council (MC) asked for the intervention of the High Court Federal Court Lagos to stay in office despite the weights of financial infringements against them.

The accusations, contained in the petitions presented by two club members, remained unresolved.

The registered trustees of the club led by Aare Kola Oyefese also sued the members of the Management Council to enforce the suspension of the Council following the lack of quorum deriving from the constitutional requirement according to which any official with an accusation of crimes should take a step aside until the conclusion of the investigations, and he or she is not guilty.

Later, in July 2024, the High Federal Court Lagos issued a sentence of consent (CJ) which implemented a custodian committee to manage the club’s business until the cases of the Federal High Court had been paid.

Subsequently, three (3) new cases emerged from the two signatories and a member of the former management council in search of emptying the sentence of consent on the basis of the fact that the members of the past of the Management Council that signed the same, including the former president, Seyi Adwunmi, played the favi officials, who would have had a committee of equally.

Sometimes in October 2024, the Court ordered that the status quo was maintained, but the club’s registered trustees, however, went on with the elections and the inauguration of a new management council, including some of the ex-works accused of the management council, while the cases are still in progress.

The club’s crisis deepened in April 2025 while the Commission for Economic Financial Crimes (EFCC) invited some of its officers for having interrogated the accusations of financial celebrations against the immediate past of the club, Seyi Adwunmi; Vice -President, Mr. Tunji Amosu; Treasurer, Otunba Abimbola Olaniyi; The architect Tokunbo Ashiru, member of the Council and Mr. Osemoje side, social secretary of the management council of the immediate past. The INFCC survey is underway.

Club sources said that the crises that swing the club must not yet be resolved despite the ghost elections held to elect the new management council and the extraordinary annual general meetings have called to ratify many fake resolutions.

The use of the election of the new management council, according to some members, seemed to constitute an assault on the judgments of the court that ordered the maintenance of the status quo.

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