Adeseye Ogunlewe

For the Nigerian athlete, see Seye Ogunlewe (athlete).

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Adeseye Ogunlewe
Senator for Lagos East
In office
3 June 1999 – 3 June 2003
Preceded byAnthony Adefuye (1993)
Succeeded byAdeleke Mamora
Minister of Works
In office
July 2003 – March 2006
PresidentOlusegun Obasanjo
Succeeded byYahaya Abdulkarim
Personal details
NationalityNigerian
Political partyPeoples Democratic Party
All Progressives Congress
Alma materUniversity of Ibadan

Kingsley Adeseye Ogunlewe (Listenⓘ) is a Nigerian politician, he is from a royal family of Igbogbo, he was elected Senator on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform in 1999 for the Lagos East constituency, before he defected to the PDP. He later became the Minister of Works from July 2003 to March 2006.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Olayinka Oyebode (11 May 2009). "Lagos PDP without Bode George". The Nation. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
  2. ^ Ndubusi Ugah (28 October 2009). "The Many Controversies of Bode George". This Day. Retrieved 13 November 2009.