A Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Chief Felix Adenaike says the first civilian governor of Lagos State, the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande is an elephant who defies a simple description.

Chief Adenaike stated this in a keynote presentation at the inaugural Lateef Jakande Annual Memorial Lecture organized by the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Lagos.

Going down memory lane, Chief Adenaike said Alhaji Jakande was a visionary leader who as a governor of Lagos State between 1979 and 1983, introduced many policies and projects which had remained the best till today.

The Chairman of the occasion, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Major General Ike Nwachukwu said he owed his success in the military and life to the things he learned from Alhaji Jakande when he worked under his tutelage as a reporter.

In his speech, a veteran journalist and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba said Alhaji Jakande’s contribution to journalism and governance remained unmatched in Nigeria.

Earlier, the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr Eze Anaba said the lecture was in honur of Alhaji Lateef Jakande who was the first president of the Guild, founder of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Journalism and brought the International Press Institute to Nigeria before he became governor of Lagos State.

The lecture, with the theme, “Lateef Jakande: The Man, His Journalism, His Politics,” is being attended by the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, senior editors, Alhaja Sikirat Jakande, the widow of Alhaji Lateef Jakande