OBASANJO ALMOST FAINTED THE FIRST DAY HE MET ME- ALAMIEYESIGHA.

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A former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Solomon
Peter Alamieyeseigha has claimed that ex-president,
President Olusegun Obasanjo nearly fainted the first
day they met after his (Alamieyeseigha) release from
prison.
The former governor said, though he had forgiven
Obasanjo, who allegedly championed the campaign
that led to his impeachment and subsequent
incarceration, the experience, however, remained very
painful to him.
Alamieyeseigha, who received state pardon from his
former deputy governor and immediate past President,
Dr Goodluck Jonathan, told Vanguard that Obasanjo’s
conscience had been pricking him because of the role
he played in his political misfortunes.
He recalled that Obasanjo nearly fainted the first time
he met him after his release from prison.
He said the former president, who met him accidentally
at the Katsina Airport became jittery on seeing him and
managed to shake hands with him.
Alamieyeseigha said: “I have forgiven all those who
plotted against me, including former President
Obasanjo. I know all those who plotted against me and
sent me to jail. I cannot be living in the past as it does
not help me in any way.
“What I passed through is painful all right but it would
not have happened if it was not permitted by God. It is
even more important to me that I am still alive today
because I passed through many shadows of the valleys
of death and still came out of them. I have met
Obasanjo at very close quarters twice since I came out
of prison.
“I did not know that he was at the VIP Lounge at the
Katsina Airport to attend the marriage of the late
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s daughter. Obasanjo
came face to face with me at the airport when I went to
use one of the rest rooms. It happened that as I opened
the door to ease myself, I saw Obasanjo sitting face to
face with me and he almost passed out.
“But I held his hands. He was scared and he felt
uneasy all through. Then he began to ask ‘DSP, DSP,
DSP! What have I done to deserve shaking your
hands?’ There were many people there, one of them
was Kenny Martins, the then chairman of the Police
Equipment Fund.
“I told Obasanjo ‘I was only shaking you for two
reasons: one-because of the fear of the Almighty God,
who created us and two, for the fact that I am the
Ganuma Katsina and you are a visitor to my emirate
and tradition demands that I should welcome visitors’.
“That prompted Kenny to get up also and greet me,
saying ‘great leader, great leader’ and he came and
hugged me.’’
The former governor said his second post-prison
encounter with Obasanjo took place aboard a Dubai-
bound flight where the former president met him seated
in the business class and addressed him as ‘Fayose’
out of fear.
His words: “The second encounter with Obasanjo was
when we met on a flight going to Dubai. When
Obasanjo came, I was already seated in the Business
Class and he had no choice but to greet me.
But because of possible fear of seeing me, Obasanjo
called out ‘Fayose, Fayose, Fayose.’ I protested to him
that I am not Fayose and I said: ‘Former President
Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, you are a
devil incarnate.’
“I warned him not to talk again or he would face my
anger. And I tell you, throughout the flight he could not
say anything to me.
“The only thing Obasanjo managed to say was to ask
me whether I was the only one who had ever been sent
to the prison. ‘DSP, is it only you that entered prison?
Don’t you remember that I was also imprisoned? You
entered prison and I also did.’”