Lagos loses another female council official, Akintola

…As APC mourns

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Lagos State Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) person been thrown into mourning pursuing the decease of different pistillate section authorities official, making it the 5th specified nonaccomplishment recorded wrong 2 months.

The latest was the passing of the Council Manager of Coker Aguda Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Mrs. Adebimpe Akintola.

According to reports, Akintola died connected Monday, September 29, 2025, aft a little illness. She was besides the Chairman of the Forum of Council Managers successful Lagos State.

Council Managers service arsenic the administrative heads of the 20 section governments and 37 LCDAs successful the state, arsenic good arsenic the accounting officers for the councils. They are besides known arsenic Heads of Administration (HoA).

News of her decease was announced by the Forum of Council Managers successful a connection connected Tuesday, which read:

“With full submission to the volition of Allah, we denote the passing distant of our beloved Chairman, Mrs. Adebimpe Akintola, this afternoon, Monday, September 29, 2025. She was the Council Manager of Coker/Aguda LCDA until her death.”

The forum besides disclosed that the deceased would beryllium buried according to Islamic rites connected Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The Janazah Prayer is scheduled to clasp astatine Al Kitab Mosque, Abosede Onamade Street, Eleshin, aft Zuhr Prayer astir 1:00 p.m., portion interment volition travel astatine the Equitable CDA Muslim Cemetery, Igbe Lara, by 2:00 p.m.

The incidental has thrown the full assembly into mourning, with unit members seen successful quiescent groups reflecting connected the loss.

The decease of Mrs. Akintola marks the 5th among pistillate assembly officials since the inauguration of the contiguous medication successful Lagos councils connected July 27, 2025. Others include:

On August 13, 2025, Mrs. Oluwakemi Rufai, elected Councillor for Ward C successful Ibeju Lekki Local Government, passed distant little than 2 weeks aft her inauguration.

On August 18, 2025, Mrs. Zainab Shotayo, elected Councillor for Ward C successful Odiolowo-Ojuwoye LCDA, besides died.

On September 20, 2025, Princess Oluremi Ajose, Vice Chairman of Badagry West LCDA, passed on.

On September 21, 2025, Mrs. Basirat Oluwakemi Mayabikan, elected Councillor for Ward F successful Somolu Local Government, besides died.

APC mourns

Reacting to the decease connected Tuesday, Lagos State APC Spokesman, Seye Oladejo, described it arsenic “another bittersweet incident.”

In his condolence message, Oladejo stated: “APC received with heavy daze and sadness the quality of the passing of Mrs. Adebimpe Akintola, the Council Manager of Coker Aguda Local Council Development Area, connected Monday, September 29, 2025.

“Her death, coming astatine a clip erstwhile the authorities is inactive mourning the nonaccomplishment of different distinguished pistillate section authorities officials successful speedy succession, is simply a achy reminder of the fragility of beingness and the vacuum near down successful nationalist service.

“Mrs. Adebimpe Akintola was a committed administrator, a diligent nationalist servant, and a dependable enactment successful grassroots governance whose contributions to the improvement of her assembly country volition beryllium sorely missed. Her passing is not lone a large nonaccomplishment to her household and the Coker Aguda LCDA but besides to the Lagos State section authorities strategy astatine large.

“On behalf of the enactment and members of the APC successful Lagos State, we widen our heartfelt condolences to her contiguous family, the bully radical of Coker Aguda LCDA, the Lagos State Local Government Service Commission, and each colleagues successful the section authorities system.”

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