Presidential Library My Mission To Collect Vital Civil War Materials – Obasanjo Says

Nigeria’s Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his remarks, yesterday  said the Library was the fulfilment of his vision and mission   which he had in 1988, to collect vital materials of the civil war.

The Acting President, who was among the plethora of dignitaries who graced the grand commissioning of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State, said one of the ways to approach the future with sure-footedness is by  preserving the lessons, the failures and the successes of the past.

According to him, that is what President Olusegun Obasanjo has been able to  do with  the establishment of  the Presidential  Library.

Some   of the World leaders who attended the event included but were not limited to: Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; Presidents   Faure Gnassingbe (Togo); Ernest Koroma (Sierra Leone); Boni Yayi (Benin Republic); Laila Ndinga (Kenya); Joyce Banda (Malawi); William Mkapa (Tanzania); and   Nicephore Soglo. Others included    former   US Ambassador to UN, Andrew   Young; Michael of Kent; former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Anan; Prof. Akinwunmi Adesina; and John Kuffor, former President of Ghana.

Also on the roll call,   were former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ernest Sonekan, Abdul Salam Abubakar, Emeka Anyaoku, Namadi Sambo, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,  Chief   Olusegun Osoba and Rabiu   Kwakwaso.

Also in attendance were Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote; Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun and his counterpart in the   Mines and Steel ministry, Kayode Fayemi; Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed; Femi Otedola; factional National Chairman of PDP,   Ali Modu Sheriff. Former governors   Goodswill   Akpabio, Emmanuel Uduaghan, Donald Duke, Liyel Imoke and   Alao Akala were also present, as well as former Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,   EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu.