Oladipupo Williams, a legal luminary and senior advocate of
Nigeria is dead.
According to Kunle, his son, Ladi, as he is fondly called,
died in the early hours of Sunday from complications due to COVID-19.
“My father passed away this morning from COVID despite being
double vaccinated with Oxford AstraZeneca,” Kunle said on his Facebook page.
He was 74-years-old.
Ladi was called to the Nigerian bar about 48 years ago and
became a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 1995.
Ladi and his father (late Fredrick Rotimi) were the first
father and son to become Senior Advocates of Nigeria.
He was the principal partner at Chief Ladi Rotimi-Williams
Chambers (CLRWC), a Nigerian law firm based in Lagos.
He founded the law firm to provide a variety of high quality
legal services to individuals, private corporations and public sector
organisations.
The senior lawyer was regarded as one of the top 100 senior
advocates in the country with expertise in litigation and commercial law.
According to a profile on his chamber’s website, his early
working life was spent at his father’s chambers, Rotimi Williams Chambers and
he was a major contributor to the success of the renowned chambers.
He was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Drafting
Committee in 1988. He was also appointed director of the defunct National
Electric Power Authority (NEPA), and he served the corporation during his
tenure.
His service to other industries has seen him on the board of
prestigious corporations such as UPS/IMNL, TSA and Mutual Benefits Assurance.
His interest in the affairs of the ordinary Nigerian citizen
led him to join the non-political group “The Patriots” where he served as
secretary to this influential association, showcasing his passion for bringing
justice and providing welfare to the less privileged Nigerian.
Since 2005, Ladi and his brothers have been engaging in a
dispute over his properties.
When the matter got to the Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta,
a former Supreme Court justice, had advised them to go and settle the dispute
out of court.
The court directed them to work out a solution to the
dispute among themselves without the involvement of an arbitrator.
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