Senator Adekoyejo Moses Majekodunmi C.F.R, C.M.G. was Minister of Health in the Nigerian First Republic

Nigerian First Republic

The First Republic was the republican government of Nigeria between 1963 and 1966 governed by the first republican constitution.-Founding :...

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He was appointed sole administrator of Western Region in June 1962 after a political crisis in the region, holding office in place of the Premier Samuel Akintola

Samuel Akintola

Samuel Ládòkè Akíntọ́lá or "S.L.A." was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, aristocrat and orator who was born in Ogbomosho, south west Nigeria...

 until December that year.

The crisis was due to a struggle between Akintola and the former Western Region Premier and current leader of the opposition Obafemi Awolowo

Obafemi Awolowo

Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician, trade unionist, author and statesman. A Yoruba and native of Ikenne in Ogun State of Nigeria, he started his career as a regional political leader like most of his pre-independence contemporaries and was responsible for much of the progressive...

, which had led to violent scenes in the House of Assembly.
On advice from the police, one of his first acts was to sign restriction orders to detain leaders of both factions.
After the situation had stabilized, Akintola resumed office on 1 January 1963.

He founded Saint Nicholas Hospital in Lagos, which opened in March 1968.