Nigeria, June 8 -- Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has threatened a lawsuit against the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Uche Aguoru, for accusing the governor of facilitating a plot to destabilise the APC in the South-eastern state.

Mr Otti is a member of the Labour Party under which he won the Abia governorship election in 2023.

Mr Aguoru, in a statement issued on 31 May, claimed that an unnamed business man, former member of the APC and close friend of Mr Otti was used to pay N5 billion to unnamed individuals in the APC Headquarters to destabilise the party.

The spokesperson also alleged that a portion of the N5 billion was given to an unnamed frontline aspirant within the APC with the "sole objecti...