BC POLITICS
Saved by @jacobhtml

The death of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande brings to my mind the triumph of excellence in political leadership as well as rebellion against the political order.

A lot has been said about LKJ since he died yesterday and I hope only to contribute my perspective to enrich all said.

 My emphasis with history has always been to draw out lessons relevant to the present, to show how trends repeat themselves and to show certain hypocritical contradictions within the present system.

Only few others qualify as well as LKJ to do all the three - I hope I do justice.
One area pundits have largely missed out in the Jakande story is the very beginning - both of his life and of his politics.

LKJ's parents were from Omu-Aran in present day Kwara State but he contributed more to Lagos than so many others - we will return to this subsequently.
LKJ was not originally a political ally of Awolowo - a number of elders were with Awo right from the very beginning but LKJ contributed politically to Awolowo at a crucial time of religious threat to the dominance of the Action Group (Awo's party) in the pre-Independence mid 50s.
A group had been formed in 1957 and named the National Muslim League headed by Alhaji R.A. Smith who had been very critical of Awolowo's AG as a Christian party and moved to align with the Northern People's Congress of Sir Ahmadu Bello.

The political threat to Awo was very real.
Awo initially dismissed the group but soon saw that the religious card was working.

He conceded ground and began to subsidise Muslim pilgrimages, appointing more Muslims into Western Region boards and agencies and openly attacking the NML which soon changed its name.
But although the NML soon became the National Emancipation League, their religious issues against Awo continued to be potent.

Awo therefore called on his own Muslim allies who were actually mostly non-political and got them to form a rival Muslim organisation.
The United Muslim Council was formed and its foundational members were the likes of S.O. Gbadamosi, Alhaji Inakoju who had also been a part of the NML and then Alhaji Lateef Jakande who had previously only been a journalist and had risen to become Editor in Chief of the Tribune.
The Tribune titles belong to Awolowo and he had found Jakande worthy to become the Editor in Chief in 1956 before drafting him into the politics that could have ruined his chances towards 1960.

Jakande stayed close to Awolowo afterwards politically and even went to jail for him.
Awolowo was charged with treason in 1962 by the Balewa Govt alongside Enahoro, Ikoku, Adebanjo, Olawoyin, J.S. Tarka, Onabanjo, Jakande and others.

Enahoro managed to escape the borders of Nigeria until the following year in 1963 but all the others suffered jail time.
The events of that period threw Nigeria led to the coup and counter-coups that ended the First Republic and it was not until 1979 that Democracy returned and Awo had sufficiently expanded his dominance of the SW political space enough to become a godfather who could dictate.
It is said that both Adeniran Ogunsanya and Samuel Onitiri had approached Awo for endorsement as Lagos Governor but he rebuffed them in favour of Jakande. Onitiri had also gone to jail for Awo in the Fiest Republic and felt sufficiently upset enough to join the NPP.
At this time, Awo's platform was the Unity Party of Nigeria and Jakande was his anointed for Governor.

Despite having been born in Epetedo, a lot of issue was made of his Kwara roots that Awo had to balance the ticket with Alhaji Rafiu Jafojo, an Awori indigenous Lagosian.
The likes of Ganiyu Dawodu who had been a Town Council Chairman and Commissioner previously in Lagos was overlooked, as were stalwarts like Pa Shonibare, Karimu Laka Orelope (father of a former Deputy Governor), Adeyinka Opeifa among others.

Jakande was the UPN flagbearer.
The only state where Awolowo could not impose was in Oyo where Bola Ige insisted on running against Pa Emmanuel Alayande and defeated him thrice in primary elections before Awo reluctantly conceded.

The stories of Ige and Jakande would soon collide but let's stay on LKJ for now.
The NPN presented Prince Ladega Adeniji-Adele to face LKJ on the UPN platform with the formidable Femi Okunnu as the NPN Chairman.

Adeniran Ogunsanya ran on the NPP platform which had Tunde Edu as State Chairman, also formidable.

Jakande/Jafojo defeated them overwhelmingly.
The Jafojo as running mate tactic worked very well because the man had been at the forefront of the agitation for indigenous Lagosians to govern Lagos. With his inclusion on the ticket and the clout of Awo in the SW, Lagos safely entered the UPN ranks of electoral victories.
In Govt, Jakande proved to be an astute and visionary Governor who proved that Government is not rocket science.

He understood that Lagos was a growing city and his focus was to configure Lagos to accommodate the large and likely to increase population; that was his joker.
In education, Jakande focused on building schools that were practical but not aesthetically pleasing - the goal was to educate in numbers.

Houses were built with space constraints in mind - 3 and 4 storey buildings with single and double bedrooms were his hallmark.
From Amuwo-Odofin to Badagry to Dolphin to Alaka to Iponri to Oke-Afa in Isolo to Abesan in Ipaja to Ikorodu and Epe, Jakande's low-cost houses remain a visionary standard for expanding populations that only Bola Tinubu (to be fair to him) has even attempted to emulate.
In the area of transportation, Jakande built roads like the Lekki-Epe expressway to open up new areas for habitation.

He built that very road that Fashola added one extra lane on both sides and proposed tollgates for, despite Lagos guaranteeing the funds used to build it.
Jakande however saw that motor vehicular transportation would not be sufficient for Lagos in the years to come and therefore got a consortium of about 19 French companies to agree to construct a Lagos Metro Line from Agege through Yaba to Tafawa Balewa Square in the first phase.
That the NPN Govt of Shagari agreed to guarantee the project through the CBN was good but the military coup of 1983 saw Buhari cancelling the project despite confirmation from the subsequent military administrator of Lagos thay the project was not only viable but visionary.
In the health sector, Jakande not only built General Hospitals like in Ikorodu and Gbagada but also constructed Health Centres all over Lagos to attend to basic healthcare needs of the growing masses.

Let us spare some praise for the men who governed Lagos alongside LKJ...
Hon. Muftau Hamzat was the Commissioner for Transport and had won elections into the LSHA before losing the Speakership to Hon. Oladosu Osinowo (Yes, you know their offspring).

Hamzat was then nominated by Pa Rafiu Ishola Solomon into the Lagos cabinet (Ganiyu Solomon's father).
Others in the cabinet included Pa Hundeyin, Pa Olorunfunmi Basorun, Olawale Idris, Ganiyu Dawodu, Afolabi Ege, P.O. Fagbeyiro, Hundeyin etc and a certain Prof. Femi Agbalajobi whose story also comes back to LKJ in a bit.

It was this visionary cabinet that helped LKJ to succeed.
Among the UPN Governors of the time, LKJ and Bola Ige were considered heirs to Awo's empire due to their fidelity to Awo's political ideals and also their governance.

While Jakande was called "Baba Kekere", Ige was called "Arole Awolowo" and were seen as rivals of sorts.
In terms of taking battles to Awo's political enemies and eulogising the man, Ige did it better than anyone.

But Jakande was a financial patron of Awo's political family, many of whom held no office and lived around Awolowo in Apapa; so they supported him and disliked Ige.
The military coup of 1983 ended the democratic administrations around Nigeria at the time and Jakande was jailed alongside many other Governors.

The charge was that the 28.5km Light Rail Lagos Metroline Project which was to convey about 40,000 commuters daily was 'corruption'.
It was said that the funds were being set aside to finance UPN activities and LKJ was jailed until the IBB regime where he again entered politics while Bola Ige tactically stood back, labelling SDP and NRC as two sides of a coin and proclaiming that IBB was not going to handover.
LKJ put forward Femi Agbalajobi as an aspirant for Governor in the SDP.

But some then young fellows in the party were having none of it and one of them was Bola Ahmed Tinubu - they put forward Dapo Sarumi against the establishment candidate of their elders and party leaders.
The young fellows rallied under the banner of a group called People Resolved Irrevocably to Maximise the Resources of the State for Excellence (PRIMROSE) with the likes of Muftau Hamzat, Basorun Olorunfunmi, Henry Ajomale, Ademola Adeniji-Adele and Yomi Edu as members.
Their slogan at the time was “no more ‘Baba s’ope’” and they derisively referred to anyone supporting Agbalajobi as "Ase" - signifying someone who merely carried out the will of the old men without hesitation, only saying "Ase" or "Amin", two synonymous words.
The campaign for the ticket of the SDP in Lagos was bitterly fought with diatribe, rhetorics, jingles and violence.

The primaries was to be direct with all party members across all wards in the state voting and much manipulation of membership was introduced.
In the primaries, Agbalajobi had about 115,000 votes to Sarumi’s about 114,000 votes while Yomi Edu who was drafted as a spoiler for Agbalajobi got about 20,00 votes.

Awolowo’s daughter, Tokunbo Dosunmu, got only 7,362 votes.

Sarumi protested the results bitterly.
Sarumi asked that six wards be cancelled which if done would have made him winner.

The LKJ group insisted Agbalajobi had won and both camps found no truce.

The regime through the electoral umpire intervened and disqualified both Agbalajobi and Sarumi from the race.
Interestingly, also disqualified at the time due to bitterly contested primaries were the likes of Atiku Abubakar and Bala Takaya in Adamawa, Sule Lamido and Yusuf Sanni in Jigawa, Joe Nwodo and Onuaguluchi in Enugu - men of dogged political aspirations.

But back to LKJ...
With Agbalajobi and Sarumi thrown out, Jakande picked Abiodun Ogunleye to run in his stead and the Primrose group picked Yomi Edu.

Edu won the SDP ticket and faced Michael Otedola of the NRC whom Jakande tactically and covertly supported against his own party - Otedola won.
The final phase of LKJ's political life was his service with the Abacha administration which I have no inclination to dwell upon in an open thread like this but to say that some say that MKO Abiola nominated him to join Abacha initially while some say it was not so.
I've written that part of my book and I reconstructed the events of those days with eye (and ear) witness accounts as well as political judgement of what's likely.

(This tweet is for those who will urge one to write a book: I've started it, will finish it this year insha Allah.)
To end this thread, I'll point out that Jakande was a shining star of the Awo political family but once he fell out with them during the Abacha regime, they took pains to remove his history totally from the history of SW politics.

Their politics was: "he who is not for us..."
LKJ was made and unmade by the same political family but his place in history was guaranteed mainly by his own actions in Government - historians will forever accord him a place of honour and even those who led the "no more 'Baba s'ope'" against him will pay him tribute in death.
Shakespeare said (and I paraphrase) that some humans are born great, others achieve greatness while some have greatness thrust upon them.

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande had only an opportunity for greatness thrust upon him and then he achieved greatness with his own hand and mind.
I pay tribute to him with this thread as he reunites with his mentor and compatriots in the afterlife.

We bid him to keep their company with news of events on this plane since the departure of the last of them and assure them all that we in our time will strive to outdo them.
May his spirit also be with the Lekki protesters tomorrow at the tollgate.

Jakande built that road out of a visionary heart and did not tax the road-users directly via tolls, not to talk of trying to use force to dislodge protesters from the tollgate leading to deaths.

More from Politics

Brian Cates
Brian Cates
@drawandstrike
Trump is gonna let the Mueller investigation end all on it's own. It's obvious. All the hysteria of the past 2 weeks about his supposed impending firing of Mueller was a distraction. He was never going to fire Mueller and he's not going to


Mueller's officially end his investigation all on his own and he's gonna say he found no evidence of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election.

Democrats & DNC Media are going to LITERALLY have nothing coherent to say in response to that.

Mueller's team was 100% partisan.

That's why it's brilliant. NOBODY will be able to claim this team of partisan Democrats didn't go the EXTRA 20 MILES looking for ANY evidence they could find of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election

They looked high.

They looked low.

They looked underneath every rock, behind every tree, into every bush.

And they found...NOTHING.

Those saying Mueller will file obstruction charges against Trump: laughable.

What documents did Trump tell the Mueller team it couldn't have? What witnesses were withheld and never interviewed?

THERE WEREN'T ANY.

Mueller got full 100% cooperation as the record will show.
POLITICS
Richard James
Richard James
@RJSHutton
I think a plausible explanation is that whatever Corbyn says or does, his critics will denounce - no matter how much hypocrisy it necessitates.


Corbyn opposes the exploitation of foreign sweatshop-workers - Labour MPs complain he's like Nigel

He speaks up in defence of migrants - Labour MPs whinge that he's not listening to the public's very real concerns about immigration:

He's wrong to prioritise Labour Party members over the public:

He's wrong to prioritise the public over Labour Party
POLITICS
Advertisement
Seth Abramson
Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
(THREAD) The Whitaker scandal is deepening, as it becomes clear that Sessions' Russia recusal was a coordinated sham and his firing an act of obstruction—and that his replacement is a White House plant inside the Mueller probe. I hope you'll retweet and read on for more details.


1/ From 2014-17 Whitaker worked for World Patent Marketing—which during his tenure defrauded consumers out of $26 million and was successfully prosecuted by the feds. His involvement in the scam confirmed he had loose morals and that the feds would never want to employ him again.

2/ Despite the seeming impossibility of a man with Whitaker's background getting a job at Justice ever again—he'd been found to have used his former title as a US attorney to fraudulently threaten consumers with valid complaints with criminal penalties—Whitaker found an opening.

3/ Within 60 days of parachuting out of World Patent Marketing as it was being fined $26 million by the feds, Whitaker was working for CNN and telling a fellow attorney panelist that his purpose in working for CNN was to get noticed by one man—Donald Trump—and thereby get a job.

4/ Whitaker spent his time at CNN making ludicrous statements about the Mueller probe: there was no obstruction or collusion, he said; Mueller had no authority to look into any aspect of Trump's finances or to subpoena him, he said. All the while, he hoped Trump was watching him.
POLITICS
Conservatives for Women
Conservatives for Wome...
@CforWomenUK
1/12 Plan for today; we expect the #MOMA bill (Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances) debate to begin around 12.45pm.
It is still not too late to email if you haven't already done so, but Tweeting about this and tagging MPs will raise more awareness on social media.

2/12 We have the names (in speaking order), of all those who are listed to speak. We suggest you Tweet these MPs (especially if you are a constituent) and make your views known. Use the #MOMA hashtag.

3/12 Minister Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North)
Shadow Minister Rachel Reeves (Leeds West)
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North)
Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire)
Cherilyn Mackrory (Truro and Falmouth)
Ms Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham)

4/12 Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock)
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)
Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke)
Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower)
Sir John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings)
Wera Hobhouse (Bath)
Dehenna Davison (Bishop Auckland)
Feryal Clark (Enfield North)

5/12 Shaun Bailey (West Bromwich West)
Sarah Owen (Luton North)
Mr Richard Holden (North West Durham)
Claire Hanna (Belfast South)
Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford)
Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West)
Kim Johnson (Liverpool, Riverside)
POLITICS
InSearchOfSense
InSearchOfSense
@ganesan312
The initiatives of Congress are to come in two areas. One within the party and the other with other parties.
First Congress has to Improve its communication with people, cadres, leaders and supporters.
Rahul is mainly shouldering this responsibility. But why not other leaders.
/1

It may be argued that some leaders are doing it within their areas. What about other areas, other leaders?
There will be many contenders for posts, maybe even for President’s if given a chance.
Why not leaders volunteer to propagate views, counter the Modi regime on the field?
/2

Some leaders give out statements in media, write their views on social media. Are they enough? Are they doing justice to their potential?
Even during elections, they limit themselves to their constituencies/ state.
Why should they not extend it beyond & even between elections?
/3

The statements of Congress leaders with few exceptions are bland, insipid, prosaic, not interesting and attracting enough to percolate to the people.
How many of their messages reached the people?
Can they not make it more attractive or find other ways to reach the masses?
/4

Some may say there are limitations of age, barriers of territory, egos, invitations, interference.
Most of them are artificial, self-imposed and can be sorted out.
These leaders do not devote themselves to the masses.
If Rahul does it, expected to do it why not others?
/5
POLITICS

You May Also Like

Chris Herd
Chris Herd
@chris_herd
I've spoken to 1,500+ people about remote work in the last 9 months

A few predictions of what is likely to emerge before 2030

[ a thread ] 💻🏠🌍

🚜 Rural Living: World-class people will move to smaller cities, have a lower cost of living & higher quality of life

These regions must innovate quickly to attract that wealth. Better schools, faster internet connections are a must

⏰Asynchronous Work: Offices are instantaneous gratification distraction factories where synchronous work makes it impossible to get stuff done

Tools that enable asynchronous work are the most important thing globally remote teams need. A lot of startups will try to tackle this

⚽️Hobbie Renaissance: Remote working will lead to a rise in people participating in hobbies and activities which link them to people in their local community

This will lead to deeper, more meaningful relationships which overcome societal issues of loneliness and issolation

🌍Diversity & Inclusion: The most diverse and inclusive teams in history will emerge rapidly

Companies who embrace it have a first-mover advantage to attract great talent globally. Companies who don't will lose their best people to their biggest competitors
REMOTE WORK
MaMaMia \U0001f1ec\U0001f1f7\U0001f1e8\U0001f1fe\U0001f1e6\U0001f1f2 SupportGreekProducts
MaMaMia 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇦🇲 Support...
@MaMaMia73189983
Following @BAUDEGS I have experienced hateful and propagandist tweets time after time. I have been shocked that an academic community would be so reckless with their publications. So I did some research.
The question is:
Is this an official account for Bahcesehir Uni (Bau)?


Bahcesehir Uni, BAU has an official website https://t.co/ztzX6uj34V which links to their social media, leading to their Twitter account @Bahcesehir

BAU’s official Twitter account


BAU has many departments, which all have separate accounts. Nowhere among them did I find @BAUDEGS
@BAUOrganization @ApplyBAU @adayBAU @BAUAlumniCenter @bahcesehirfbe @baufens @CyprusBau @bauiisbf @bauglobal @bahcesehirebe @BAUintBatumi @BAUiletisim @BAUSaglik @bauebf @TIPBAU

Nowhere among them was @BAUDEGS to find
BUSINESS
Advertisement
Anshul Pandey
Anshul Pandey
@Anshulspiritual
SHAKTA DHARMA AND THEIR ACHARYAS

Śhākta or Shakti or Devi pooja is not a new upasana. It is being carried out right from the time of Vedic period. Puran's tell us that Rishi Vashishth would worship Tara devi. Parshuram ji worshipped Tripura devi,


Agastya learned the secrets of Shri Vidya from Vishnu ji in Hayagriva avtaar. Bhagwan Ram, Laxman and Krishna too learned the tantrik vidya. Even Rig Ved 7.103.5 Sayan Bhasya also mentions about Śhākta/शाक्त(शाक्तस्येव शक्तिमतः).

Then we find that in the Harrappan excavations many figurines depicting Shakti were found. So in that age too, which was supposedly an urban city shakti was being worshipped. So naturally this tradition would be prevalent in rural areas too.

It is wrong to say that shakti puja originated from Bengal although it was popular there. Matsyendranath received this vidya from Maheshwari herself in Kamrup. We know that Shakti pooja is practised all over India.

Not much is known about the Śhākta saints in other parts of India in the middle ages.

Adi Shankaracharya wrote Pramanech saar named book on tantra and Anand lahri book on Devi strotras. Then there were Acharya Shankar, Bhaskar Rai, Laxman, Deshikendra, Raghav Bhatt, Krishnand,
ALL
Professor
Professor
@DillikiBiili
So friends here is the thread on the recommended pathway for new entrants in the stock market.

Here I will share what I believe are essentials for anybody who is interested in stock markets and the resources to learn them, its from my experience and by no means exhaustive..

First the very basic : The Dow theory, Everybody must have basic understanding of it and must learn to observe High Highs, Higher Lows, Lower Highs and Lowers lows on charts and their

Even those who are more inclined towards fundamental side can also benefit from Dow theory, as it can hint start & end of Bull/Bear runs thereby indication entry and exits.


Next basic is Wyckoff's Theory. It tells how accumulation and distribution happens with regularity and how the market actually

Dow theory is old but
SCREENERS , ALL , MARKETESSENTIALS
Ranvijay Singh\U0001f1ee\U0001f1f3
Ranvijay Singh🇮🇳...
@ranvijayT90
#Thread The legend of Ekadash Mukhi Hanuman ji...


Mahadev himself narrated the story of Ekadash Mukhi Hanuman ji to Maa Parvati. Once a great monster named Kalkarmukh performed the severe penance of Brahma ji.


Pleased with the austerity of the demon, Brahma ji gave him a boon that the person who will have eleven Heads like you and who was born on the day of your birth, only he/she will be able to kill you. No one else will kill you.


After getting a boon from Brahma ji, Kalkarmukh created a ruckus in all three lok. He invaded Swarg and snatched all the rights of the Devtas and became himself the king of Swarg.


All Devtagan came to Shri Rama and asked him for help. Hearing the agony of the Devtagan, Shri Ram called his supreme devotee Hanuman ji and said, "Pawan Putra, Sankatmochan".
HANUMANBHAKTI