BEVERLY HILLS, September 30, (THEWILL) – Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday jocularly blamed the governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, for all the “bad things” he did as Nigeria’s president while the latter served as his adviser.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of students of Rochas Foundation in Owerri, the Imo state capital, he said, “as you may all know, Rochas was one of the advisers I had when I was president. All the bad things that happened to this country under my presidency was advised by Rochas Okorcha”.
The former president, however, extolled the qualities of the governor who he described as a man of vision and ideas, doffing his hat for the former presidential adviser.
According to him, “He (Okorocha) is a thinking man. And when he explained to me his ideas about education, what he has done, I was marvelled. I doff my hat for you, Okorocha.
“Let me say this; the beginning of the development for any country is education. And the extent that we take education seriously is the extent that we take development seriously.
“Rochas is not just dealing with education; he is dealing with education for the underprivileged in general, which means that if the poor and the underprivileged will rise above their disadvantaged position, it is only through education.
“And with what I have seen today, I have no regret at all to accept his offer for me to be part of this wonderful programme and wonderful development agenda to our country and for our continent.”
