Nigeria, April 8 -- Three men acquitted of responsibility in the bomb blast that destroyed a section of Rivers House of Assembly Complex said they were pressured to implicate Governor Siminalayi Fubara's chief of staff, Edison Ehie in the crime.

A section of the complex went into flames after it was bombed on 29 October 2023, the eve of the impeachment attempt on Mr Fubara by lawmakers loyal to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.

The men were prosecuted for alleged involvement in the arson but were acquitted by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt last November after almost a year in detention.

"We were asked to rewrite our story and falsely name Mr Ehie as the mastermind of the assembly fire," Chime Ezebalike alleged on behalf of his coll...