President Goodluck Jonathan, ex-Ghanaian President John Kufuor and some governors are scheduled to attend a civic reception in honour of former President Olusegun Obasanjo following his voluntary retirement from office as Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The two-day event billed for the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, from January 18 to 19, is expected to be chaired by former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido.
Chairman, Planning Committee of the event, Adeyemi Adefulu, at a press conference on Monday in Ibadan, said Obasanjo was being celebrated because he was an outstanding statesman and an icon.
Adefulu added, “Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is being celebrated for his exploits on the political landscape of Nigeria in the past 50years.
“In the 60s, he was a young officer fighting in the Congo on a United Nation’s Mission to restore order to Zaire.
"It is to his glory that he kept faith with the people and in 1979 handed over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari as elected President of Nigeria.
“Having dominated the Nigerian public life in a way no other person has for the past 50 years, the symbolism of another retirement is not lost on us. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has effectively become the father of the nation, a political oracle and a living legend whose life is worth celebrating.”
Meanwhile, the President Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Centre for Human Security and the Institute for Africa Culture and International Understanding on Monday said about N3.675bn would be spent on Delta and Ogun states as well as on other African countries to check unemployment and ensure food security.
The OOPL-CHS and IACIU also said that the Obasanjo-led initiative would spend an undisclosed sum on 12 different projects in the next 10 years.
Adefulu added, “Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is being celebrated for his exploits on the political landscape of Nigeria in the past 50years.
“In the 60s, he was a young officer fighting in the Congo on a United Nation’s Mission to restore order to Zaire.
"It is to his glory that he kept faith with the people and in 1979 handed over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari as elected President of Nigeria.
“Having dominated the Nigerian public life in a way no other person has for the past 50 years, the symbolism of another retirement is not lost on us. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has effectively become the father of the nation, a political oracle and a living legend whose life is worth celebrating.”
Meanwhile, the President Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Centre for Human Security and the Institute for Africa Culture and International Understanding on Monday said about N3.675bn would be spent on Delta and Ogun states as well as on other African countries to check unemployment and ensure food security.
The OOPL-CHS and IACIU also said that the Obasanjo-led initiative would spend an undisclosed sum on 12 different projects in the next 10 years.
U look at this buffoonry and u wonder why nigeria is receding to a failed nation status, A nation that is cash strapped wasting her little resources on non essential issues like a two day ceremony worshipping Oba sango!
ReplyDeleteA shameless grp of Ppl whose reatives r living in abject poverty,but they prefer to worship and idolise corrupt human beings! And this is inspite of d fact that Obasanjo is bad mouthing d same Mumu he planted as his puppet and not President of d Nigerian masses! Nigerians must rise up in 2015 and get rid of these Charlatans!!
Obasanjo expended 16 billion us dollars on our electricity ostensibly to restore power to nigeria. this money was shared among the PDP and nobody is talking about it till today.
ReplyDeletethey are celebrating the cogs in the will of the progress of nigeria
shame on u!!!
let us not sit down and look nomore.
ReplyDeletelet us not fight ourselves nomore
2015 is just arround the corner
we shall go and vote these cockroaches called PDP out of office
Disgraceful specimen of ugly and CORRUPT humanbeings!
ReplyDeleteLet me tell u d truth d big cabals in PDP knows hw dey manipulate & pushes # to buy votes frm non enlightend votes,wit securities intimidatn frm up.Pray for God interventn & wip out of corrupt leadrs at all levels,no one can do it for us be it muslims or christians except GOD.I don't trust any politician.
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