The Warri South-West Local Government Council was established in 1997 by the Federal Government, led by General Sani Abacha, and had its administrative centre in the Itsekiri town of Ogidigben in Warri.
When he died in 1997, he gave his daughter, Isabel Goldsmith-Patiño, his Las Alamandas property in Mexico. A-listers like Cindy Crawford, Robert De Niro, and Sting have stayed at this 16-suite resort.