[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.
His elder brother Akin 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.
In July 2002, Wahab Dosunmu and Ogunlewe accused then-Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of abusing trust of public funds through contract awards to his friends.
[3] In July 2003, Ogunlewe announced that the federal government would invest about $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.
The clashes were over control of Federal roads, and were apparently linked to ongoing disputes between Ogunlewe and the state governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the Alliance for Democracy.
[15] In November 2009, the Senate ad hoc committee on transport led by Heineken Lokpobiri, submitted a report to the upper house that revealed "alleged serial malpractices" in road contracting over a ten-year period, and recommended that former ministers of works Anthony Anenih, Ogunlewe, Obafemi Anibaba, Cornelius Adebayo and others be prosecuted for corruption.