Former OAU Students' Union President Declares Interest in Lagos Governorship Race

A former President of the Students' Union of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Lanre Adeleke, popularly known as "Legacy," has declared his intention to contest the Lagos State governorship election on the platform of the Labour Party.

Legacy made the announcement while addressing participants at the July 10 Commemoration Symposium held at OAU, an annual event organised to honour the victims of the July 10, 1999, campus killings.

A survivor and eyewitness of the 1999 incident, which claimed the lives of the then Students' Union Secretary-General, George Iwilade, popularly known as Afrika, and four other students, Adeleke reflected on his years of student activism and how the experience shaped his political philosophy.

Addressing students at the symposium, he said his decision to seek the governorship was motivated by a desire to translate the ideals and principles he had championed over the years into practical governance.