G. B. A. Coker

Chief George Baptist Ayodola Coker (27 January 1917 – 7 February 1991) was a Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court, serving from 1964 until 1975.

Mrs Oye Akintola-Williams (Mama MUSON), a professional health nurse and later a patron of the arts and ardent environmentalist.

[4] He was a great-great-grandchild of Daniel Coker, a freed slave that emigrated to Sierra Leone and was a key figure in the creation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816, which became the first independent black denomination in the United States.

The Coker Commission Of Inquiry issued a four-volume report detailing administrative excesses in the region.

The Commissioners stated further that Awolowo’s scheme “was to build around him with money an empire financially formidable both in Nigeria and abroad-an empire in which dominance would be maintained by him by the power of the money which he had given out.” Little wonder, why when Helicopter was a Luxury, he was the only Presidential Candidate that have the luxury to afford 2 helicopters for his campaign which failed woefully.

Two notable cases of the nature were Vaswani v Savalakh and Utilgas Nigerian And Overseas Gas Co. Ltd.v.

Pan African Bank Ltd.[10] Coker was a member of the Methodist Church in Tinubu, Lagos.