Musiliu Obanikoro

[2] He was appointed State Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture in 1999 and served for four years before he was elected Senator of the Federal republic of Nigeria.

In February 2005, Obanikoro was among senators who urged the African Union chairman, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to use military force if necessary to restore democracy in Togo.

[5] As Senator, Musiliu Obanikoro proposed motions on the surge and overflow of the Atlantic Ocean along the Bar beach shoreline, to stop the incessant increments in pump prices of petroleum products, to protect Lagos State from the menace of flood, to probe into the condition of the velodrome at the National Stadium (Abuja), and for the resolution of the clash between men of the Nigerian Police Force and men of the Nigerian Army in Lagos State.

[8] He is currently in partnership with a US-based NGO (AWHPI) to set up a mammogram centre that will enable women to test for breast cancer for free in Lagos.

[10] In April 2007 Musiliu Obanikoro ran for governor of Lagos State on the PDP ticket, but lost the election to Babatunde Fashola of the Action Congress.

[14] Divisions between factions in the Lagos State PDP which had surfaced before the 2007 elections continued until a series of meeting in October 2009, where the differences were resolved.

[15] Following the 2015 news scandal involving illegal diversion of $2billion of funds meant to fight the Boko Haram insurgency, authorities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Obanikoro and slammed him with money laundering charges.

[16] He later described to authorities how he used his office to divert five million dollars (about N1.8 billion) from public funds meant for purchase of arms to top personalities and figures such as former Governor of Ekiti State in Nigeria, Ayodele Fayose.