Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has labelled South-East as the only region with capacity to achieve developments in its area.
Obasanjo voiced this verdict on Friday when he paid Abia State governor, Alex Otti a visit at his country home in Nvosi, Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of the state.
The 87-year-old made the comment while urging Otti to provide an enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state saying, “I will urge you to pay adequate attention to infrastructure because if you give infrastructure and you give the type of leadership you are giving, the people of the state will have nothing to worry about. On their own, they are enterprising. All they need is the leadership that will give them all the encouragement.
“I have always maintained that if there is any zone in this country that could really give what I call regional development, it’s the South East geo-political zone because you are almost monolithic in everything.”
He also paid tribute to the governor’s jettisoning of humongous pension to his predecessors and deputies remarking, “I watched the television and I saw the repealing of Abia pensions and I asked you what exactly is this, and you said to me that the pensions scheme for former governors here was too outrageous.
“It’s like trouble because it allowed them to have a house in Abuja and elsewhere, and it allowed them to cart away with whatever they can, yet the pensions of ordinary people from 2014 are unpaid.
“What sort of leadership? You came and said there would be an end to that rascality. I congratulate you, and I say to you, I hope that your colleagues will follow in your footsteps.”
