Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is not among the “deserving Nigerians” whom President Muhammadu Buhari has named some railway stations after.
On Monday, Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, announced that the president 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.
Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are among those that stations were named after.
Below is a full list of those who were honoured:
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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
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- 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
- Mike Akhigbe/Railway Village, Agbor
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- Alex Ekwueme/Operation Control Centre
4 comments
So no woman is prominent enough to get a railway station named after her?
Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti Fela’s Mum is on the list
Funmilayo Ransoms Kuti listed above is a woman.
There is a difference between silver and gold. Obasanjo is still the best Nigeria leader, gold is reserved for the best, so Obasanjo deserves a gold medal not silver or bronze, this shall be awarded to him at God’s time.