Adeseye Ogunlewe
| Adeseye Ogunlewe | |
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| Constituency | Lagos East, Lagos State |
| Senator for Lagos East | |
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In office April 1999 – April 2003 |
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| Minister of Works | |
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In office July 2003 – March 2006 |
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| Succeeded by | Yahaya Abdulkarim |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Political party | PDP |
Kingsley Adeseye Ogunlewe, alias , is a Nigerian nobleman and politician who was elected a national Senator on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform 1999 for the Lagos East constituency, before he defected to the PDP. He later became the Minister of Works (July 2003 to March 2006). When he was sacked from this position by President Olusegun Obasanjo, it was said to be due to a feud with his former patron, Bode George, the Deputy National Chairman of the PDP.
Ogunlewe is from an affluent dynasty of Igbogbo, a community in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. His elder brother, Dr. Akin Ogunlewe, was a permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry, who was relieved of his position soon after Ogunlewe transferred to the PDP.
Ogunlewe is an alumnus of the University of Ibadan. During his stay in the premier University he lived in Mellanby Hall and participated actively in students politics. He is a lawyer, and at one time was permanent secretary of Lagos State.
In July 2002, Senator Wahab Dosunmu and Adeseye Ogunlewe accused Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of abusing trust of public funds through contract awards to his friends.
He ran for reelection in 2003 on the PDP ticket, but was defeated by Olorunnimbe Mamora of the Alliance for Democracy (AD).
In July 2003, Adeseye Ogunlewe announced that the federal government would invest about US$2.85 billion in rehabilitating and upgrading the nation's highway network, and planned to make all roads in the country accessible by year end. In January 2004, Adeseye Ogunlewe said the Federal government had approved an extra N900 million for rehabilitation of roads in the South-east.
In April 2004, Adeseye Ogunlewe won the Dr Kwame Nkrumah Africa Leadership Award in Accra, Ghana. In May 2004, Ogunlewe published his mobile phone number and told people to use it if they saw any pot-holes or had a traffic accident. He said he was inundated with calls, but also said of the roads "They are fantastic now." He claimed that 12,600 km of roads had been rehabilitated in the past six months.
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