How is one to describe Pa Lateef Kayode Jakande (LKJ) at 90. May be, LKJ
can be referred to as a man of many parts. In the words of that flamboyant
politician of all time, Adegoke Adelabu, as quoted in Post and Jerkins
(1973:33), who described himself as follows:
‘‘I am a living laboratory of my age … I am at once the cocoa
farmer, the mercantile clerk, the civil servant, the petty trader, the
transporter, the capitalist and the intellectual ( and now the politician) –
all materials for the study of the social scientist.
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| *Lateef Jakande |
LKJ could not be said to be radically
different from this role cast as he shares many of these attributes which
characterise a typical Nigerian politician – Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ayo Rosiji,
Adegoke Adelabu and even Obafemi Awolowo. Though, from the start, LKJ’s
objectives in life was clear – to devote his life to his profession of
political journalism and book publishing.
