Ex-Lagos gov. Lateef Jakande’s memorial lecture holds Monday
Lateef Jakande, a journalist who later became the first elected civilian governor of Lagos state in 1979, will be honoured with a memorial lecture on Monday (August 7).
The event, organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors, is the maiden edition, and has the Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as its “guest of honour.”
Titled, ”Lateef Jakande: The man, His Journalism, His Politics”, the lecture holds at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Maryland, Ikeja, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole, former Nigerian ambassador to Brazil, at 10:00am.
Felix Adenaike, a fellow of the editors’ guild, will keynote the event, according to the organisers.
Jakande, who passed on in 2021 aged 91 years, is credited with many building mass housing estates in the state and remarkable in his implementation of his party’s- the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria-free education policy among other lofty achievements.
He was abruptly removed from office by military coup plotters in 1983, led by former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari over allegation of corrupt enrichment.
A military probe panel would later absolve Jakande and some of his compatriots of the allegation.
