Seyi Jakande, son of the late former governor of Lagos State Lateef Jakande, has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to reconsider renaming Lagos State University (LASU) after his father.
Jakande founded LASU in 1983 during his tenure as governor.
Seyi said on Monday at the Lateef Jakande Annual Memorial Lecture organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors that LASU was the brainchild of his late father.
He urged Mr Sanwo-Olu to reconsider the proposal that was made to him in 2019 by the former vice chancellor of LASU, Prof Lateef Fagboun, for the varsity to be renamed after Jakande.
He said, “In 2019 when Baba was celebrating his 90th birthday, the vice chancellor of LASU came up with a proposal that the university be renamed after my father.
“Let me thank Mr. Governor for establishing LKJ Leadership Academy after my father, but I also want to appeal to Mr Governor to reconsider renaming LASU after him.
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“I recalled that two of his colleagues then, Prof Ambrose Ali of the old Bendel state and Bisi Onabanjo of Ogun State, came to my father in Lagos to understudy how LASU was founded.
“My father then instructed Prof Femi Agbalajobi to put them through. Today, both universities have been renamed after the founders.
“Bendel State University is now Ambrose Ali University, while Ogun State University has changed to Olabisi Onabanjo University to reflect the names of the founders.”
“What is good for the goose is good for the gander,” Seyi added.
Among those present at the lecture were Jakande’s widow Abimbola; former governor of Ogun State, Segun Osoba; former military governor of Imo State, Maj. Gen. Ike Nwachukwu (retd).
