Former Communications Minister Chief Cornelius Adebayo has been named as the National Chairman of the Movement for National Reformation (MNR).
Also named as executives are: Sam Onimisi Vice Chairman; Dr Philip Idaewor (General Secretary); Prof. Igho Natufe (Director of Research and Strategy) Taiwo Akinola (Director of Mobilisation and Organisation) while Comrade Faruq Chukwumah is Director of Public Relations.
Adebayo was the Movement’s first General Secretary when it was newly formed in 1992, with the late Chief Anthony Enahoro as its founding chairman.
In his acceptance speech, Adebayo eulogised and celebrated the memory of the founding leaders ‘who had the foresight to start the movement, and many others who joined later but who are no longer with us today’. He described them as ‘the architects of change who set out to plant a tree and not grasses’.
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He added: “We are a non-partisan, non-governmental Think-Tank whose aims and objectives are to conduct in-depth analysis of and research into the socio-economic and political problems facing Nigeria, its ethnic nationalities and citizens, and actively mobilise the people and work towards the resolution of the identified challenges.
“We also work for the convocation of a People’s National Conference (PNC) to address the National Question and for a National Referendum on the Recommendations of the Conference.”