- Soyinka, Tinubu, Osinbajo, Fasola, Others Make List
By Kolawole Ojebisi
President Muhammadu Buhari has named train stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors after “deserving Nigerians”, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi said.
Also corroborating the claim by Amaechi, the special assistant on digital/new media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi, revealed this on Monday in a tweet.
According to Ogunlesi, the Apapa station was named after Bola Ahmed Tinubu, while the Agege station was conferred on the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.
Other personalities conferred with train station names include Lateef Jakande (Agbado station), Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Kajola station), and Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Papalanto station).
The late Mobolaji Johnson (Ebute Metta Station), Wole Soyinka (Abeokuta station) Segun Osoba (Olodo station), Ladoka Akintola (Omio-Adio station), Obafemi Awolowo (Ibadan station), Alex Ekwueme (Operations Control Centre).
The New Diplomat had reported how President Buhari named the railway complex in Agbor, Delta state after former President Goodluck Jonathan.
But as the president continued with the naming of railway stations after prominent Nigerians, Monday, there have been speculations as to why the name of former president Olusegun Obasanjo was yet to make the list of the “deserving Nigerians” considered, according to Amaechi, especially in the stations spanning the Southwest.
