Prof. Tunde Samuel, a former special adviser on education to ex-governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu, has passed on.
Samuel, who was a member of the governor’s advisory council (GAC) in Lagos, died on Wednesday aged 73.
The retired professor of political economics served on the governing councils of several institutions including Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto-Ijanikin; Federal University, Oye-Ekiti; and Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa.
Mourning him, Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Obasa said he was a titan whose positive roles in Lagos cannot be forgotten in a hurry.
Obasa paid a condolence visit to the home of the deceased on Thursday in Lagos.
The late don was one of the founding fathers of Lagos State University (LASU), where he was both a member of the implementation committee and two-time member of the Provisional Governing Council.
Obasa said described Samuel’s demise as a big blow and a pain that would be too difficult to bear, not only by people of Agege community, the APC as a family but also, the GAC and the entire people of Lagos.
“His importance to the state can never be over-emphasised. He was a passionate indigene of the state whose thoughts, actions and activities were all geared toward strengthening democracy in Nigeria,” he said.
