After months of legal tussles, members of the Lagos Country Club, Ikeja have decided to take charge of affairs. They decided this at an Extraordinary General Meeting held Thursday evening.
In overwhelming numbers, the general members, expressed their wish to install members in a Caretaker Committee to begin the process of normalcy in the Club’s administration. They voted in Mr Adewole Gege as Chairman, Mr Adetayo Adegboye as Secretary, Barr Olawole Harris Isa.as Legal Adviser and then Chairmen of the ten Sections of the Club as members. They would be sworn in in Saturday, October 12, 2024.
This decision upturned a former caretaker committee whose tenure expires today, Friday, October 11, 2024.
Recall that earlier in the year, the prestigious club had been embroiled in internal crisis which led to four court cases. But in July, justice A Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos had harmonised the cases after aggrieved parties decided to tow the path of reconciliation, gave a consent judgement which was signed by the parties.
The consent judgement stipulated the formation of a Caretaker Committee to take charge of managing the affairs Club according to the constitution for 90 days. Within that period, it charged that members alleged to have committed infractions face a disciplinary committee, after which the decision of the Caretaker Committee be forwarded to an Extraordinary General Meeting of members which would ratify such decision or not. The consent judgement also ordered that the caretaker committee conduct an election of officers into the Management Council to oversee the day to day running of the club.
While the Caretaker Committee was formed and members alleged of commiting infractions had faced a disciplinary committee, other portions of the consent judgement is yet to be completed by the Caretaker Committee whose tenure ends by Friday, October 11, 2024.
However, adhering to the Club’s constitution, members took it upon themselves to call for an EGM to discuss how to move forward the prestigious sports and family club which was founded in August 1946.
At the meeting which was chaired by Mr Igho Okor, a former Secretary General of the Club, members expressed their disappointment with the conduct of the former caretaker committee charged to effect the consent judgement.