Amaechi Speaks On Rigging Elections While In PDP

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state has said he never took part in rigging of elections by the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) when he was a member of the party.

Amaechi disclosed this on Thursday, November 6, while addressing newsmen at the Government House in Port Harcourt.

The governor, who noted that he had always insisted that the people’s mandate remained critical, called on the newsmen to ask the PDP if he had, at any time supported rigging, Punch reports.

He said: “People have confronted me in different fora that all these things that you have done, how are we sure that they can be sustained and I said the only way you can sustain them is to make sure that you vote for somebody that comes from the party that I come from because that party will run the same programmes as I have ran.