He also counseled the governor not to worry about some people who may not be impressed with the series of developmental projects he was executing in the state, noting that he (the governor) would be appreciated later.
He said this while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, at the end of his two-day his visit to the state to commission some projects executed by the governor, insisting that he remained a card-carrying member of the ruling party.
When he was confronted with the allegation that his adoption of Amaechi as his political son meant an endorsement of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the former president simply replied, “You are a uhn.
“Do you know what that means? You are a uhn. I say and I repeat, you people no dey hear word. I was in London and I was asked the same thing. I am a card-carrying member of PDP.
“How else do you speak English? What language do you speak? Tell me, your mama an England or your papa an England? Me wey my papa no reach England, why would I say I am England?”, he asked.
Obasanjo was also circumspect when he was asked if he would want PDP to retain the Presidency after the 2015 elections as he just said, “Wait o. For me, I no dey look that too far. I want to look now.”
He said it was not true that the PDP national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, paid him a visit in Ota, saying the party chieftain only visited in his house in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Speaking on the ongoing mono rail project embarked upon by Governor Amaechi, Obasanjo admonished him not to be deterred by criticisms trailing the projects, saying all good things must have opposition.
“The Heifel Tower, which is a landmark for the French, when it was being built, some people said the man who built it should be killed. All good things must have some opposition.
“That is why I told the governor yesterday (Monday) that to thyself and to thy God, be true. Don’t mind what the opposition says because so many people will not know what it takes and how it takes. But when they come to know, they will say, well done.
“I saw it (the motor rail project). I actually must confess my ignorance; I didn’t know that it was something of that extent. When I saw it, I felt the only state that can do that now, with the little power that we have, is Port Harcourt (Rivers) because the state generates, I think with what we commissioned yesterday (Monday), about 700 megawatts.
“And it can dedicate about 20 megawatts to that mono rail to be running undisturbed. There is no other state that can do it now. That is my own assessment,” he said, adding that Amaechi had proved to be a good administrator, given the projects he had executed so far.
Meanwhile, Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP,) has faulted the assertion by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the Supreme Court judgment of 2007 had straightened his K-leg theory on the state governor, Honourable Rotimi Amaechi.
Obasanjo had, during his commissioning of some projects executed by the governor, on Monday, said the judgment by the apex court which ousted the Sir Celestine Omehia administration to pave way for Amaechi in 2007 had further closed any discussion on the theory.
However, media aide to Rivers PDP chairman, Mr Jerry Needam, in a statement issued on Tuesday, said the K-leg saga that was responsible for the current political crisis in the state had nothing to do with the Supreme Court ruling.
Ex-President Obasanjo should either open up on the issue or forever hide his head in shame as a man of double speak,” he said, insisting that the former president’s main reason for objecting to Amaechi’s governorship candidature in 2006 bordered on alleged corruption and stupendous self-enrichment at the expense of the state.
“The PDP recalls Chief Obasanjo announcing that unaccounted billions of naira had been traced to Amaechi’s bank account while he reigned as Speaker of the State House of Assembly.
“Subsequent to Obasanjo’s allegation of huge financial fraud against Amaechi, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) followed up the case, invited Amaechi and some other key officers of government (who) supposedly used to misappropriate the monies for questioning in Abuja which reports are yet to be made public till date.
Source: Tribune
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