The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the immediate past governor, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, stole N80 billion from the state coffers, and deposited them in different foreign accounts.
In a statement released by the party’s state chairman, Mr. Felix Obuah, it claimed that the Bancorp Bank, Minnesota, United States, had gotten in touch with the Nigerian government over an alleged $757 million (N80 billion) said to belong to the former governor.
He claimed that the transfer was facilitated by a Nigerian bank and that the Minnesota-based bank intends to return the money to Nigeria, noting that “there are enough evidence on several corrupt actions and the monumental looting carried out by Chibuike Amaechi and his aides, which must be recovered.”
The Bancorp Bank letter to President Buhari stated that the said transfer to both banks in Minnesota and Switzerland were for the purchase of security Helicopters, spraying of mosquito insecticides and for the purchase of a residence for Mr. Rotimi Amaechi in America.
He said: “The PPD reiterates its position that the former governor stole billions of dollars and looted assets belonging to the state, some of which he used in funding the activities of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and also lodged in several of his private foreign accounts.”
Obuah said Amaechi lied by claiming he left N7.5 billion when he was unable to pay workers, noting that the former governor left behind a bankrupt state even though the state was getting N6 billion monthly from internal revenue.
He said the former governor could not pay “civil servants, pensioners, TIMARIV workers, Students’ Scholarship, Contractors, Teachers at the Nne Krubo Model Secondary School, Eleme among others, for several months when he still had the said amount he claimed he left in the State’s treasury.”
