Reactivation of Abeokuta/ Lagos railway services. Osoba praise President Buhari
Akinrogun
of Egba land, and the former Governor, of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba,
today commended President Mohammadu Buhari for reviving Railway services which
had gone moribund years back.
Chief Osoba thanked
the President for restoring the lost glory of the train services which he said
started in 1906.
The former
Ogun State Governor stated this in a statement he personally signed and made
available to newsmen in Abeokuta saying the revival of the service as
epitomised by the test-run from Lagos to Abeokuta on Friday was most pleasing
to him.
Osoba in the
statement said he told the President how nostalgic he feels with the
reactivation when he visited him at the Aso Villa on Friday.
The
statement read in part: “I told the President on Friday at the Banquet Hall at
the Villa when I reviewed a book on his administration in which the Railway
featured, how emotional and nostalgic I feel about the reactivation.
“I presented
a picture of myself taken 61 years ago on the steps of a coach in Lafenwa on
one of my trips for holiday from Osogbo to Abeokuta.
Chief Osoba
expressed his happiness that what he enjoyed then by traveling from Lagos to
Abeokuta and Osogbo was being reactivated in his lifetime.
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