Ojokoro Local Council Development Area of Lagos State was carved out of the old Ifako Ijaiye Local Government of Lagos State, one of the existing Seven Hundred and Seventy Four (774) Local Governments across the nation by the Creation of Local Governments Law of Lagos State 2003 which increased the number of the Local Governments in the State to Fifty Seven (57) by the additional Thirty Seven (37) to the existing Twenty (20) so created. It was to be later rechristened Local Council Development Area (LCDA) following the conclusion of the protracted and exhaustive dispute and litigation that greeted the opposition of the Federal Government under the then President Olusegun Obasanjo which insisted that it would only settle for something lower than or different from the National Assembly approved and Constitutionally listed existing Seven Hundred and Seventy Four (774) Local Governments in the Country. The newly created Thirty Seven (37) Local Governments by the revolutionary and exceptionally visionary Lagos State Government under Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the then Governor had to revert to Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of their mother Local Governments. Asiwaju was of the strong belief, and rightly so, that Governments would be brought closer to the people with its resources and developments more fairly distributed among them with additional Local Governments.
In doing this, the State G5 had firsts conducted a state wide referendum to feel the pulse of the people. The result had proved tremendously that the people were actually yearning and pining for it. In particular , Ojokoro Local Council Development Area was the culmination or outcome of years of relentless agitations and unremitting clamour for its creation by the people of the area in general and notable personalities in particular who took a step further by their years of advocacy and social activities aimed at drawing the attention of Lagos State to that highly compelling need of bringing Government closer to them as the starting point of all development efforts by submitting memoranda and appeal letter to the State Government.
However, in practice, besides this difference in nomenclature, there is nothing the Local Governments have by way of administrative power that Ojokoro does not boast of just like others in the same fold. It, therefore, scarcely differs from the Local Governments in any material particular. Its jurisdiction over its territorial space is to the exclusion of all others, including its mother Local Government. It has its own Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary to the Local Government, The Legislative Arm or House with its principal officers like the Leader of the House, Deputy Leader, Majority Leader and the Chief Whip. Its different areas of operation are headed by the Supervisors and Special Advisers.
In all this, there is no difference at all from what obtains in the Constitutional Local Governments. Thus, Ojokoro came into being as a Local Council with full powers of a full-fledged Local Government covering between Abule Egba in Lagos State through Ijaiye, Kola, Alakuko and others to Ajegunle Community bordering Ogun State by the old Toll Gate.