The organisers of Chief Anthony Enahoro at at 87 has said the event has been shifted to the Banquet Hall of the Lagos Airport Hotel.
According to them, the new venue will host Governors Ibrahim Shekarau, Governor Tunde Fashola, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Chief E K Clark, Chief Olu Falae, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Ambbassador Segun Olusola and other eminent statesmen and party leaders that will be tackling credible elections, zoning and national unity at the flag off of a series of Presidential Colloquium initiated by the Action Group of Nigeria.
Moving the venue from Coliseum to Airport Hotel, they said, became imperative as more leaders and groups signified intentions to participate at the strategic interface of the Nigerian stakeholders, which is first to commemorate the 87th Birthday of Elder statesman Anthony Enahoro Cfr on Thurs 22nd of July 2010, while subsequently reflecting on the state of Nigeria at 50 at a grand finale on October 1 2010.
The group's spokesman, Chief Olawale Okunniyi, said the series of national stakeholders’ colloquium is designed to scrutinize the state of Nigerian nationhood during golden jubilee of independence, while eliciting profound mind rubbing on issues key to the consolidation of the country's nascent democracy AGN reiterated that the Enahoro event will host one hundred and fifty (150) eminent national statesmen and political Stakeholders, and senior Editors/Scholars at the serialized national dialogue, patterned after the PRONACO National Conference, initiated to set formidable agenda for the success of Nigeria's 2011 elections.
The group however confirmed that the first national dialogue on credible elections and zoning shall be broadcast live by Nigerian television/radio stations as it is packaged to provide Nigerians with opportunity to assess their would- be leaders, who shall be given platform to present their agenda to the people, ahead of the 2011 elections.
