Amaechi Sues Rivers PDP,Chairman and 2 other for N300bn

Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State, has dragged the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, its Chairman, Chief Felix Obuah, and two others to an Abuja High Court over allegations that he stole over $757m (N80bn) belonging to the state while in office.

Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi made the revelation In a statement he personally signed yesterday. He also said he sued the state PDP and two others for alleging that he operated a private foreign account where he deposited the said public funds.

Amaechi did not name the two other persons he joined in his suit; he, however, said the allegation had done a lot of harm to his person and reputation and demanded N300bn as damages.

Amaechi recalled that the state PDP on August 6, and August 21, 2015, alleged that he stole the sum of N80bn of Rivers money and stashed them in an account in his name in Bancorp Bank in Minnesota, United States of America.

The statement explained that ever since the said libelous publications by the PDP and Felix Obuah got to the general public, he had been “inundated, bombarded and confronted by several persons who expressed lack of respect, loss of faith in him and who no longer regarded him as trustworthy and now viewed him as a common criminal.”

“That he had been confronted by persons who offer him disrespect arising from the false accusations, even though he denied committing the several heinous offences which the PDP and Felix Obuah falsely and maliciously accuse him of committing.

“The PDP also alleged that Amaechi had embezzled millions of dollars of Rivers State money and stashed the money in other foreign accounts in his name, including in a bank in Switzerland. The PDP claimed that the various Amaechi foreign accounts were revealed and blown open by Christiane Amanpour of America’s Cable News Network (CNN).

“The PDP went further to claim that Bancorp Bank, Minnesota, had written to President Muhammadu Buhari that part of the funds was to purchase a house for Amaechi in America and that they (Bancorp Bank) intend to return the stolen funds to Nigeria”, he stated.

“The Bancorp Bank, Minnesota, United States, did not write and did not communicate with President Muhammadu Buhari over any said sum of $757m allegedly looted by him (Amaechi) that is kept with it and in Switzerland since no such money was ever looted by him.”

Daily Trust