BY DAPO AKINREFON

lagos —A FORMER governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has said that national transformation can only come about if the elites are actively involved in politics.

He said this yesterday at first year anniversary and inaugural lecture entitled: “Elite, leadership and national transformation”, organised by the January 9 Collective, J9C, a pressure group formed after last year’s January 9 fuel subsidy protest, in Lagos.

Agbaje said it was imperative for the elites not to shy away from politics to correct the anomalies in the country.

While faulting the current political structure, he said “the system is not made to bring out the best but mediocres.”

Agbaje, who was governorship candidate of the Democratic Peoples’ Alliance, DPA, in Lagos, in the 2007 election, said that the country was not beyond redemption.