By Adeyinka Adeniran
Contrary to speculations in some quarters, the Court cases rocking the Lagos Country Club (LCC) have been adjourned to the 15th of July, 2025 at the Federal High Court (FHC), Ikoyi, Lagos.
The Court Registrar, in a Notice on Tuesday 10th June, 2025, gave the new date of 15th July in the Cases of FHC/L/CS/1704/24 Ademosu V. REG. Trustees LCC; FHC/L/CS/1792/24 Fashanu V. Reg. Trustees LCC and FHC/L/CS/657/25 Timmy Kolawole V. Reg. Trustees LCC.
The cases were initially adjourned to 9th June, 2025 for further hearing but due to the Sallah Holidays declared for Friday 6th and Monday 9th June, 2025, the Cases were further adjourned.
Lagos Country Club has been embroiled in series of crises which blew open in February last year after some members of the defunct Management Council (MC) sought the intervention of the Federal High Court Lagos to remain in office despite the weighty allegations of financial infractions against them presented in the petitions submitted by two members of the Club has remained unresolved.
The Registered Trustees of the Club led by Aare Kola Oyefeso also sued the members of the Management Council to enforce the suspension of the Council following the lack of quorum arising from the constitutional requirement that any officer with an allegation of offences should step aside until investigation is concluded, and he or she is found not guilty.
Later, in July 2024, the Federal High Court Lagos issued a Consent Judgement (CJ) which put in place a Caretaker Committee to run the affairs of the Club until cases at the Federal High Court are dispensed with.
Thereafter, three (3) new cases emerged filed by the 2 Petitioners and a member of the former Management Council seeking voiding of the Consent Judgment on the ground that the members of the past Management Council who signed same including the former president, Seyi Adewunmi, impersonated the officials of the Management Council when their tenure had expired and because the accused officers were allowed to pick members of the Committee that would decide their own case against the laws of fair hearing.
Sometime in October, 2024, the Court ordered that the status-quo be maintained but the Club’s Registered Trustees, nonetheless, went ahead with elections and inauguration of a new Management Council including some of the accused ex-officers of the Management Council whilst the cases are still pending.
The Club’s crisis deepened in April 2025 as the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invited some of its officers for questioning on festering allegations of financial improprieties against the immediate past president of the Club, Mr. Seyi Adewunmi; Vice President, Mr. Tunji Amosu; Treasurer, Otunba Abimbola Olaniyi; Architect Tokunbo Ashiru, Council Member, and Mr. Osemoje Lato, Social Secretary of the immediate past Management Council. The EFCC’s investigation is still on-going.
Sources within the Club affirmed that the crises rocking the Club are yet unresolved despite the phantom Elections held to elect new Management Council, and the botched Extraordinary Annual General Meetings called to ratify many bogus resolutions.
The resort to election of new Management Council, according to some members, appears to constitute an assault on the Court rulings ordering the maintenance of the Status Quo.
