Amaechi blames Obasanjo for forcing his children into foreign schools

Rotimi Amaechi, ADC vice presidential candidate and former Rivers governor, says ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is responsible for his children's education abroad. In a News Central Television interview Friday, Amaechi claimed Obasanjo blocked his 2007 governorship bid after he won the PDP primary, then threatened arrest — forcing Amaechi into a 10-month exile. His wife and children, "running from one house to another," relocated overseas for safety and schooling. By the time Amaechi returned, the children had settled in foreign schools and never re-entered the Nigerian system.

Amaechi frames this as personal cost of political persecution: "My children did not go to Nigerian school because Obasanjo chased us out of Nigeria." The claim resurfaces the well-documented 2006–2007 clash when Obasanjo's federal government opposed Amaechi's governorship ambition, leading to a Supreme Court ruling that eventually installed Amaechi as governor.

Obasanjo has not publicly responded to this specific allegation. The interview comes as Amaechi positions himself for 2027 politics under the ADC banner, frequently criticizing both the Tinubu administration and his former APC colleagues.

How much weight should voters give to decades-old personal grievances when evaluating political candidates — and where's the line between accountability and settling scores?

SOURCE: https://dailypost.ng/2026/11/06/why-my-children-did-not-go-to-nigerian-school-amaechi/