Rotimi Amaechi Sues PDP for N300bn

                    

The Immediate past Governor of River State Rotimi Amaechi has filed a law suit against Rivers State Chapter of  Peoples Democratic Party, its Chairman Mr Obuah and two other Persons at the Abuja High Court for allegation of Embezzlement and ownership of Foreign account leveled against him.

He is seeking a N300bn damages done to him and defamation his of character,reputation and person.
The PDP in August in a statement said that Mr Amaechi  stole $757Million ,N80bn Rivers State Fund he stashed away in a US Bank , Bankcorp Bank in Minnesota.
It was also alleged that Amaechi embezzled millions of dollars state money he stashed away in foreign accounts in Switzerland and in other places.

The party said Mr. Amaechi’s foreign accounts were revealed and blown open by Christiane Amanpour of America’s CNN and alleged that Bancorp Bank wrote President Muhammadu Buhari intimating him that part of the funds was to be used to purchase a residence for the former governor in the US and that it (Bancorp Bank) planned to return the stolen funds to Nigeria.

In his suit against the PDP Amaechi claimed that each of the said publications by the PDP and its officials “are untrue, false, motivated by ill-will and without any foundations in truth whatsoever.”
He said that they “made the said libellous publications after the party failed the March 28 presidential election and with a view to rubbishing him in the eyes of right thinking members of the society and the persons to whom the said libellous publications have been made.”
In his statement of claims in the suit, Mr. Amaechi said he did not steal the state’s funds neither did he stash them away in Bancorp Bank in the US or in a Swiss bank.

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

“There exists no letter which the Defendants (PDP, Felix Obuah and two others) had seen written to President Muhammadu Buhari, by Bancorp Bank, Minnesota, United States confirming the existence, lodgment or transfer with the said Bancorp Bank and in Switzerland of the said sum in the name of the Plaintiff (Amaechi) since no such monies were ever looted by the Plaintiff.

“The Plaintiff (Amaechi) did not steal monies belonging to Rivers State and did not lodge them in any private foreign accounts. The Plaintiff did not admit that he lodged and domiciled in his name in an account in Bancorp Bank, Minnesota, United States any monies as alleged by the Defendants. The Plaintiff did not lodge any sum of $757 million or N80billion in the said bank account belonging to him and none was revealed or blown open by Christiane Amanpour of CNN.”