Obasanjo’s name missing as rail Stations are named after national leaders

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has announced that the president has given approval that stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors should be named in honour of some national leaders.

However, conspicuously missing was the name of a former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The stations are in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Kogi, Edo and Delta States.

The stations named in each of the states are:

LAGOS STATE

* Mobolaji Johnson –   Ebute Metta Station

* Bola Ahmed Tinubu – Apapa station

* Lateef Jakande – Agbado station

* Babatunde Fashola – Agege station

OGUN STATE

* Yemi Osinbajo – Kajola station

* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti – Papalanto station

* Wole Soyinka – Abeokuta station

OYO STATE

* Segun Osoba – Olodo station

* Ladoke Akintola – Omio-Adio station

*Obafemi Awolowo – Ibadan station

KOGI STATE

* Adamu Attah – Itakpe station

* Olushola Saraki – Ajaokuta station

EDO STATE

* Augustus Aikhomu – Itogbo station

* George Innih – Agenebode station

* Tom Ikimi – Ekehen station

* Anthony Eromosele Enahoro – Uromi station

* Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia  – Igbanke station

DELTA STATE

* Goodluck Ebele Jonathan – Agbor Station Complex

* David Ejoor – Abraka station

* Micheal Ibru – Opara station

* Alfred Rewane – Ujevwu station

* Mike Akhigbe – Railway Village, Agbor

* Alex Ekwueme – Operation Control Centre