Nigeria.”Amaechi: “Obasanjo is to blame for my children’s incapacity to attend school in
Rotimi Amaechi, the African Democratic Congress’ (ADC) vice presidential candidate, has provided an explanation for why his children did not attend school in Nigeria.
Amaechi responded to enquiries during a Friday interview on News Central Television by tracing the incident back to the moment when former President Olusegun Obasanjo drove him out of the nation.
He claims that Obasanjo, the president at the time, prevented him from running in the 2007 election after he won the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP, governorship primary in Rivers State in 2006.
Amaechi claimed that after Obasanjo threatened to arrest him, he fled Nigeria.
Amaechi clarified that his children began attending school overseas during his roughly ten-month exile.
The former governor of Rivers State claimed that since his kids had already enrolled in schools abroad, they were unable to return to Nigeria to start afresh.Obasanjo drove us out of Nigeria, therefore my kids didn’t attend Nigerian schools. My spouse and kids were rushing from one home to another. In order to survive and continue their education, they were forced to attend school abroad,” he stated.