The African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential working mate, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s threat made him run from Nigeria to Ghana.
Amaechi disclosed that Obasanjo threatened him whereas making an attempt to cease him from changing into the governor of Rivers State.
In a video on X, Amaechi revealed that he escaped to Ghana from the place he fought to turn out to be the governor of Rivers State.
The ADC presidential working mate made the remarks whereas urging youths to occupy the function of management in Nigeria.
According to Amaechi: “You can’t have a president doing what’s he’s doing, and the youths are doing nothing, the youths must do much more.
“Was it in Serbia or Albania the place a celebration led by college students elected the president and chased away a president who has been there?
“The same thing can happen here where you have the numbers. There are more youths than the elders, so the youths can turn it, the solution is in your hands, you can be a minister or a governor.
“President Obasanjo tried to cease me from being a governor however you will note that I didn’t go to sleep, I went to court docket and when he threatened arrest, I left the nation.
“I stayed in Ghana and from there I fought that case until I became governor. I’m the first and only Nigerian that the court pronounced as governor without proper election.
“So, the PDP received the election and the candidate that the court docket had mentioned is the candidate of the PDP turned the governor and I used to be the candidate by regulation, so I did not simply go to sleep.
“I didn’t just look at Obasanjo is from the South so I shouldn’t fight him, bloody what? Which South is that?”
