History was made during the inauguration of Reformation Movement of Nigeria Board of Trustees at Top Rank (Galaxy) Hotel, Abuja where Arc. Sola Adesoye emerged as the chairman BOT while Alh. Adesina Olanrewaju was elected Deputy chairman and Dr. Kingsley Udeh the Board Secretary.

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Jimmy Sho Shomuji:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you to this auspicious occasion of the inauguration of the board of trustees of the Reformation movement of Nigeria and I thank you for being here.

Several years ago, a group of young men and women came together under the auspices of the students’ union movement to protect and defend the right of students on campus with an uninterrupted ideology, passion and discipline. Little did they know that the fire and passion they carried in their bones through the years would one day lead to the formation of a movement that has come to be known as the Reformation Movement of Nigeria.

This movement is clearly an idea whose time has come especially at a period when our country continues to navigate through the waters of uncertainty and a misty and foggy political, economic and social atmosphere.

It is no longer news that our nation today has a population of 198m people with over 60% of these being youth. Sadly, while making up over 60% of the population the Nigerian Youth has not found significant platforms to acquire, develop and express their leadership skills outside of the student union movement; which in many cases has become an extension of the school management and has been generally ineffective as it has also been subjected to corruption.

The reality today is that we have a nation where the minority lead the majority and the majority has little or no say in determining their own destiny. It is for this 120 million young men and women that today marks a turning point in our history.

The Reformation Movement of Nigeria is a socio-ideological group made up of passionate youth who will be a catalyst in mobilising other young Nigerians towards unity, cooperation, development, rule of law, employment, law and order, justice, integration, peace, security, stability and a general well-being.

While commending this great initiative, I must sound a note of caution from the outset. You must be guided and governed by conviction. All ideologies that impact the human race greatly are driven by conviction…that dogged determination to pursue one’s beliefs to a logical conclusion and leave a legacy that can be embraced by generations to come.

I share in your passion to raise patriotic, selfless and passionate; Leaders who have integrity, are accountability and have a fervent love for humanity strongly embedded in their DNA. Leaders who will commit themselves to serving and empowering the people so that each one can be proud of being a citizen of this great country.

Leaders who will be committed to using the vast resources of this country to improve the lives of the people and not corner these same resources to feed their own greed.

Leaders who combine knowledge, competence, skill and ability to achieve results. Leaders who not only have a vision, but can communicate that vision to Nigerians in a way to get their buy-in and partnership.

Leaders who will walk the talk. Mere talk is cheap but talk, backed by focused and committed actions, gets the attention of even the worst critics. I look forward to seeing such leaders emerge from this group.

I urge you to pay particular attention to the ideas you have crafted as your mission, vision and value statements, for this is what you will be held accountable for.

I also encourage you to be open to and embrace collaboration, stakeholder engagement, synergy, as sustainable strategies for the achievement of your vision.

I wish you the very best in your endeavours and look forward to sharing my thoughts and expertise with you as we work together to actualise the goals of this organisation.



Oluwasola Adesoye
Chairman

Being a text of speech delivered by Comrade Shomuji Olujimi, the National President of Reformation Movement of Nigeria, today 10th October, 2018 at Top Rank (Galaxy) Hotel, Jabi, Abuja.

Protocol.
1. Am honoured to stand here, in the midst of our great leaders who preferred to be identified with young Nigerian that are ready for nation building and good governance. Truly speaking, these are the men I call "pillars of social justice" with undiluted reputation, men and women of valour, Progressive and dogged fighter to right the Nigeria wrongs. I welcome you once again to Reformation Movement of Nigeria.
Thus, you have added another historic legacy today and the history will never forget your unquantifiable tasks.

2. want to sincerely appreciate God Almighty who has been sustaining the vision of RMN since her birth long time ago. To be precise, the journey of over 14years have been very interesting with several odds and surmountable challenges. Today, we are more than conqueror, considering so many births and rebirth of RMN at various levels viz-a-viz National, State and local chapters.

3. The RMN that started in the year 2004 at Federal Polytechnic Offa Kwara State has crystalized into a civil society organization with full involvement in good governance, intellectual advocacy, capacity building, empowerment, training, networking and education, all for National growth and advancement.

4. Today, RMN is in eleven States of Nigeria with 7 campus units across our tertiary Institutions of learning as well. We also have 2 chapters in formation broad, Germany and United State of America to be precise.


5. I want to sincerely appreciate the nominees to the highest organ of RMN for accepting the call to service and your passion our youth be more responsible in the business personal capacity development and nation building. With your unquantifiable track records, RMN will get to her destination.

6. Our state chapters have been mandated kick start the RMN Primary and Secondary School Clubs across the Nation, been the paradigm shift to redefine our scope to make RMN an Households socio-political ideological movement in Nigeria. We have also put in place a solid template for the successful launch of RMN units across all the Tertiary institutions Nationwide especially where we do not have our presence.

7. To consolidate on the RMN goals, we intend to approach and partner INEC as one of the National observer for the forthcoming 2019 general elections and considering our tentacles across all the Six geopolitical zone in the country, we are hopeful that this will be achieved. We hereby use this medium to welcome any ideas and means of achieving this laudable task.

8. RMN shall have an in-house training of every participants that will serve as RMN observer for the 2019 general elections in order to educate ourselves on the role and responsibility of RMN on the field. We shall promote and continue to build the positive image of our great movement devoid of nepotism, tribalism, propaganda, injustice and corruption.

9. As part our annual convergence, Abuja City will be hosting the RMN 2018 General Assembly. Its one of the most important organs of RMN. The GA comprises the coming together of all the RMN Members nationwide. It is also known as Congress to discuss national issues related to RMN and the nation at large. We also use GA to elect new National officers at the expiration of their tenure. But the forthcoming GA will not be for elections since the present National Executive Council still have three more years to complete their tenure.

10.This year general assembly that will come up November 2018 is tagged: "Good governance: The past, the present and the futurein view”. We have lots of programs line up for the three (3) days event vis-à-vis Medical outreach, panel discussions, Youth Presidential dialogue, dinner among others.

11. We shall continue to preach unity of Nigeria and ensure the rule of law is strengthen beyond political classes. Building RMN has been a collective tasks and we shall continue in the spirit of brotherhood and selflessness to achieved our goals. We need everyone to join hands in the building of RMN. We need you!

Thank you for listening.

Comrade. Shomuji Adebayo Olujimi
National President
Reformation Movement of Nigeria (RMN

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