OBITUARY: Jakande: Exit of Baba Kekere, man who transformed Lagos Lateef Jakande, the former Lagos State governor, died on Thursday at the age of 91. 6 min read The remains of Lateef Jakande, the first elected governor of Lagos State and a former minister of works, were interred at the Vaults and Gardens Cemetery, Ikoyi on Friday. The event marked the exit of the last of the five governors elected on the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) at the beginning of the short-lived Nigerian Second Republic in 1979. He died on Thursday at the age of 91. In his days as governor of the Lagos, which was also the federal capital at the time, Mr Jakande was called ‘Baba Kekere.’