National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has recounted how the late first civilian Governor of Lagos State, Lateef Jakande, rejected invitation to contest to be president in Nigeria.
Tinubu disclosed this on Friday during the eight-day Fidau prayer for Jakande in Ilupeju area of Lagos.
He said Lagos State was lucky to have a man like Jakande and that those in government had been extremely lucky to draw from his fountain of knowledge.
”To all of us in Lagos, we have been extremely lucky to have him, extremely lucky to draw from the fountain of his knowledge, Nigeria equally is lucky but when the crisis of military and many other arose, we met him, we said, we want Jakande but he said, he was no longer interested in becoming the president in the midst of chaos,” he was quoted to have said by PM News.
He also reportedly said: ”We told him, we wanted him to come and lead; he said no, hthe field is left for us, he has left an open field, there is no way, one can say, we will beat his record; he is already immortal; it is only from our own character, our vision that will drive our mission.”
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