Two former African Presidents to deliver lecture at Obasanjo’s 83 birthday anniversary

Two former African Presidents, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and Ernest Bai Koroma  of Sierra Leone, as well as former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn are to deliver keynote addresses and lecture  at the 83 birthday of their former colleague, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria.

Penpushing reports that, Director, Centre for Human Security and Dialogue, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Prof Peter Okebukola made this known on Monday as a press conference, ahead of Obasanjo’s birthday scheduled to hold between March 3-5 in Abeokuta.

The Director accompanied by Leke Adebiyi and Ambassador Adebola Labiran as well as  Kehinde Akinyemi, the media aide of Obasanjo said, the topic of the lecture to be delivered by the two former Presidents has the topic, ’The Place of Pan Africanism in an Emerging World of Besieged Liberal Democracy’.

Penpushing further reports that, Okebukola  said the event will also include a policy round table with formal presentation of the book, ‘the Asian Aspiration’, authored by Gre Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo and others, adding that, this will be followed by a birthday carnival with mosaic presentations of African Cultural Heritage

The Professor stated that, the activities scheduled to hold at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library International Conference Centre is the brain child of the Centre for Human Security and Dialogue (CHSD) with the support of the Brenthrust Foundation.

Penpushing also reports  that, he explained that, the roundtable on ‘The Asian Aspiration’ is aim to share lessons from Asia’s development for strengthening Africa’s integration and cooperation in the area of socio-economic development.

‘The roundtable will bring together former Heads of State and Government in Africa, especially from ECOWAS sub-region, heads/representatives of United Nations agencies, Ambassadors of foreign missions to Nigeria, leaders from the public and private sector, the media, development experts and stakeholders’, Okebukola said

’The roundtable will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3-4, 2020 at the OOPL International Conference Centre. March 3 event will kick off by 2pm while on March 4, the programme will start by 9am’, he added.

Penpushing reports that, Okebukola added that, the Ambassador to China to Nigeria and the Head of Chancery of the High Commission of India to Nigeria will give perspectives of their countries on the Asian aspiration and lessons for Africa

‘As you may be aware, the birthday celebration of His Excellency Olusegun Obasanjo since leaving office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2007 has been used as a platform to promote development of Africa and the World in general’, he told journalists.