SAN FRANCISCO, February 01, (THEWILL) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, visited the Secretariat of the Ogun State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oke – Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital, to inaugurate and register his membership of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CMN).
The Obasanjo-championed Coalition, which was formally inaugurated on Wednesday in Abuja, was proposed in an open letter on January 24, by Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari where the former President advised President Buhari not to contest the 2019 general elections.
Although Obasanjo was conspicuously absent at the launch on Wednesday, a former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and a former governor of Cross Rivers State, Donald Duke, were the two dignitaries at the inauguration.
However, the former President stormed the NUJ facility, amid retinue of armed security Operatives and politicians including Oyinlola, Duke, opinion leaders and hundreds of enthusiastic residents desirous of registering their membership CMN.
Obasanjo registered his membership by a few minutes before 1pm, declaring that it has become imperative for the nation to “rethink and retool the way” things are done today if the country hoped to witness true development, unity, cooperation and unity.
He declared that Nigeria must change for better, adding that the real change must be brought about by the nation’s youth and women who were often the direct victims of things that weren’t working well.
He noted that the registration was a very important ceremony as a follow up to the earlier letter issued by him about the state of the nation where he also offered his piece of advice.
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