Buhari names railway stations after Jonathan, Tinubu, Jakande, other ‘deserving Nigerians’
On Monday, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, announced that President Muhammadu Buhari had given approval that stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors should be named in honour of some of the nation’s leaders.
While Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the man whose administration is known to have indisputably recorded the highest level of corruption so far in the nation’s experience, and others like Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Professor Wole Soyinka made the list, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s name was pointedly missing.
The DEFENDER, however, reports that that Obasanjo is not the only name along those rail roots that are missing on the list. Other deserving Nigerians said to be qualified for the limited honours include Prince Bola Ajbola (SAN), who served Nigeria as the longest Serv Attorney General so far and without collecting salary for the over six years he served while Osinbajo, current Vice President was his Special Assistant.
There is also Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (RTD), who freed Nigerians from the telecoms grip of NITEL monopoly as Minister of Communications and Alhaji Babatunde Jose among others.
The list is as follows:
LAGOS
Mobolaji Johnson Ebute Metta Station
Babatunde Fashola Agege Station
Bola Ahmed Tinubu Apapa Station
Lateef Jakande Agbado Station
OGUN
Yemi Osinbajo Kajola Station
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Papalanto Station
Wole Soyinka Abeokuta Station
OYO
Segun Osoba Olodo Station
Ladoke Akintola Omio-Adio Station
Obafemi Awolowo Ibadan Station
KOGI
Adamu Attah Itakpe Station
Olushola Saraki Ajaokuta Station
EDO
Augustus Aikhomu Itogbo Station
George Innih Agenebode Station
Anthony Eromosele Enahoro Uromi Station
Tom Ikimi Ekehen Station
Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia Igbanke Station
DELTA
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Agbor Station Complex
David Ejoor Abraka Station
Micheal Ibru Opara Station
Alfred Rewane (Ujevwu Station) and
Mike Akhigbe Railway Village, Agbor
Alex Ekwueme (Operation Control Centre)
