Leader of "Conscience of the Ogoni People', and Port Harcourt based activist, Chief Gani Topba has threatened a defamation suit against the immediate past Head of Service in Rivers state, Dr. George Nweke over the allegations of misappropriation of funds against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
It will be recalled that Dr. Nweke stunned Nigerians last week when in his confessions he alleged that the suspended Governor ordered the bombing of the State House of Assembly in 2023 and was planning series of attacks in the state.
The erstwhile HoS also said the governor planned to hire the services of some militants to attack oil installations in the Niger Delta in order to bring the federal government to its knees.
But Topba describe the allegations levelled against the suspended governor as false, even as he demanded an apology from Dr Nweke within seven days or be ready to face a defamation suit.
The activist who spoke to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday said the former HoS must tender an unreserved apology to Governor Fubara and to Nigerians for tarnishing the image of the governor.
"I will drag the former Head of Service to court on this because he cannot malign the image of my governor and I will allow it to go like that.
"I will sue him for defamation of character because I'm very sure that the governor has noty to do with cultism. I'll will sue him and I’m using this medium to give him seven days to apologize to the governor and to Nigerians that he lied against the Governor."
He described the suspended governor as a peaceful man who has nothing to do with cultism or militant as alleged by Nweke, even as he challenged Dr Nweke to an open debate.
Topba queried Nweke who in his confessions said he was going to report himself to the Department of State Services in Abuja when he would have first reported same to the Director of DSS in the State or the State Commissioner of Police to avert the bombing of the state House of Assembly.
"He (Dr Nweke) has no character. I know the former Head of Service very well. He cannot stand before me. I challenge him to an open debate.
"He said he was going to the DSS headquarters. You have been working in Rivers State. What stops you from going to the State Commissioner of Police?
What stops him from going to the DSS Director in Rivers State?
"It was the former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike who told Nigerians that any INEC official coming to Rivers State to conduct elections should write their will. There is no Nigerian who does not know that he (Wike) is a violent person.
"But Governor Fubara has not associated himself with anything violence. So some people feel they can do anything and get away with it, why?
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