Amaechi: Cat with nine lives
The venue was the sprawling Liberation Sports Stadium at Elekahia in Port Harcourt. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s new political theory of ‘K-leg’ found its way into the political lexicon of Rivers State. Fresh from his eight years of holding forth as Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rotimi Amaechi, by stroke of the above phrase was denied the ticket to contest in that year’s governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).