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By Emmanuel Oladesu, Deputy Editor and Tajudeen Adebanjo

All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Senator Ganiyu Solomon on Thursday described the late former Governor Lateef Jakande as a religious person.

Solomon, however, clarified that the former Minister of Works was not fanatic.

He recalled how he turned a Muslim praying ground owned by Ajumonire Community into a school.

“He used his position as the patron of the Ajumoni Central Mosque to use their facility to build a school. He said you people used this place twice in a year for Eid, but we can maximise by building a school on it. The school is now Ajumoni Secondary School at Iyana-Isolo on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway,” he said.

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He said the late Jakande has immortalised himself in the hearts of Lagosians.

Solomon, whose illustrious father, the late Chief Rafiu Solomon, was an associate of Jakande in the Second Republic Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), said the former governor left good legacies across the sectors.

He urged politicians to build on the solid foundation laid by the outstanding politician, astute administrator, mentor and role model.

Solomon described Jakande as a successful journalist and an ideologue; an Awoist to the core, humanist and model governor of the Centre of Excellence, who had inspired successive crop of leaders with his legacies of hardwork, forthrightness, dynamism, discipline, probity, selfless service  and monumental achievements across the sectors.

He added: “When the full history of Second Republic Lagos State is written, references shall be made to his popular and highly rewarding free education programme, the establishment of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo; Lagos Radio and Television stations, the construction of 14 housing estates, the light train project, and the civil and local government service reforms.”

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