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Felix Obuah, chairman of  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state, has accused Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of the state, of deceiving those who do not know him.

Dismissing the legal action that Amaechi filed against him and his party, Obuah threatened to expose the former governor.

Amaechi filed a defamation suit of N300 billion against Obuah and two members of the party for accusing him of corruption and embezzlement.

Obuah had alleged that Amaechi looted $758 million from the state treasury while in office and that he also stashed some state funds in an account in Bancorp Bank in Minnesota in the United States.

Amaechi denied the allegations and demanded an apology but Obuah is still standing by his words.

“Our attention has been drawn to a news report in a section of the media over threat by the former state governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to have sued the party, its state chairman, Bro Felix Obuah and two others to court over allegations of corruption against him,” read a statement issued by Jerry Needam, Obuah’s spokesman .

“The litigation threat is diversionary in the light of shocking revelations, testimonies and discoveries of acts of lawlessness, fraudulent and injudicious spending of state resources by him while in office being witnessed before the commission of inquiry into the sale of valued assets of the state by his administration for which he was invited but he refused to appear to defend himself.

“The party would not be deterred by threats of litigation neither will it be intimidated by anybody, let alone Mr Amaechi that should be apologising to the Rivers people for running the state aground for eight years.

“The intended lawsuit by Amaechi if true, will offer the party the opportunity to expose to the whole world the atrocities committed by the former governor, for them to adjudge whether Amaechi is corrupt or a saint as he is hoodwinking those who do not know him very well to believe.”