By Our Correspondent
The Pan Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, the Afenifere, has mourned the former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, who died yesterday at the age of 91 as a leader who served the Centre of Excellence from 1979 to 1983 without greed.
The Afenifere, in a tribute entitled “Adieu Our LKJ” that was signed yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, described Jakande as the last of the LOOBO governors who faithfully implemented the Unity Party of Nigeria’s (UPN) five cardinal programmes in the second republic.
The socio-cultural organisation noted that Jakande’s implementation of the free education program, especially the phasing out of the shift program in Lagos schools, was swift and revolutionary.
that we are going to undo these things and change these things. now there is a deep frustration about among republican voters because those things didn t happen. so you had this promising from both democrats on the left of things that were going to be accomplished that have not been accomplished and the republicans on the right of things that were going to be accomplished that have not been accomplished. that explains bernie sanders. that explains bernie sanders. it really does. they see the gop establishment as hypocritical and just flat-out lying. progressives are concerned that clintonism is a complete sellout of progressive ideals. independents are now 45% of the whole country. that s surging. so you have an environment in which there is deep, deep dissatisfaction with the political institutions, with the political parties, and yet the political system, starting with the primaries, is set up to give maximum control to the parties. that s creating a gap between the people