Immediate past minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has raised the alarm on an alleged ‘heavily funded smear campaign’ to spread lies about him.
Mr Amaechi expressed his concerns in a statement on Thursday by his media office.
The statement said the former Rivers State governor’s camp had uncovered a plan to “peddle all sorts of fictitious, misleading and outrightly concocted stories, distorted and manipulated documents that would smudge the image and cast aspersions on the character, integrity and high morals of Amaechi.”
It said that the organisers planned to spread false reports about the former minister to the public through traditional and social media.
“One aspect of the reprehensible conspiracy is to unscrupulously drag the name of Amaechi and a member of his immediate family into the internal affairs and operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in a manner and way that is designed and intended to bring disrepute and opprobrium to his character and reputation.
“In respect to the NDDC, the defamation campaigners intend to create, make and push to the public space all sorts of speculative and baseless allegations against Amaechi; from the ridiculous, to the puerile and completely bizarre stories backed with distorted, phony and fake documents.
“For clarity, we state emphatically, that Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is not involved in anyway, in the management and operations of the NDDC.
“We wish to alert members of the public of the hawking presence and devious plots of these ‘operation destroy’ Amaechi campaigners,” the statement said.
