Rivers Government Withdraws Criminal Charges Against Amaechi

Rivers State Government has withdrawn the criminal charges instituted against a former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.

Attorney-General of the State, Zaccheus Adangor, informed the court that he was withdrawing the suit.

Justice Adangor noted that the state withdrew similar charges filed against the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Tonye Cole, and five others.

The state government had filed a criminal suit Cole and Amaechi of selling the government’s assets running into billions of naira.