The Former Lagos State deputy governor, Chief Rafiu Bakare Jafojo, who governed with Lateef Jakande is dead. The late Jafojo who was a very vocal politician when he was alive was born on December 6, 1935. Rafiu Jafojo Passed on today at 80. His parents were the late Pa Bakare Adeyefa Jafojo in Ebute Meta and the late Madam Taiwo (nee Adebunmi) of Ebute Meta, Lagos, but he grew up in Isale Awori, Ikeja.

Jafojo attended Alafia Institute, Ibadan and Christ High School, Ilubinrin, Lagos, where he wrote the West African School Certificate Examination and passed with flying colours. He began his working career in 1959 as a building inspector with the Ikeja Town Planning Authority, but left for England In 1961; his bosom friend Chief Ayo Otegbola was with him on the trip.

Three years later, he gained admission into Hackney Technical College, England to study building engineering. After obtaining a National Certificate in 1966, he moved to Brixon School of Engineering, where he graduated with a Higher National Certificate in Building. Due to his thirst for further education, in 1969, he proceeded to the Northern Polytechnic, Holloway (now University of North) London, where he bagged an Advanced Certificate in Building Technology a year later.

It is on record that while in England, Chief Jafojo was a student-activist; he was a member of the West African Students Union. It was from here he honed his skills in partisan politics. Upon his return to Nigeria, he pitched tent with the Egbe Afenifere. He took off by mobilising and encouraging the Awori to be politically conscious. Between 1975 and 1977, he was elected a councillor in Ikeja Local Government and later became chairman, General Purpose Committee.

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die well sir

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TO GOD WE BELONG. TO HIM IS OUR RETURN