SIMONKOLAWOLELIVE! BY SIMON KOLAWOLE
You won’t believe this. As the Lagos state governor-elect in 1979, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was so much in a hurry to hit the ground running that he appealed to all headmasters and principals not to demand or accept fees for the new academic session starting in September – in line with the free education policy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN). But there was a snag: he was going to be inaugurated on October 1, by which time schools would have resumed. Navy Captain Ebitu Ukiwe, then-military governor of the state, had to politely remind Jakande that he remained the de facto governor till October 1 – and there could only be one governor at a time!