The Vice Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2027 general election, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed he paid pregnant women N10,000 each attending antenatal care while he was Rivers State Governor.

Reflecting on his time as governor, Amaechi harped on the importance of women’s health, stressing that he built hospitals and employed doctors in villages across the state.

The former Minister of Transportation spoke at ‘Her Health, Her Power Conference Africa 2026’, in Abuja on Tuesday.

Speaking at the event, he said the money was part of efforts to boost the health of pregnant women because Rivers State was rated second on the maternal-child mortality index while he was governor.

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Amaechi said, “On the issue of health, you certainly cannot make the female look healthier and stronger if the economy is bad.

“In a global economy like that of Nigeria, 40 per cent of women are farmers, so we need to do more as politicians to see that women live healthier.

“No matter how much grammar we speak in our different states as governors, we need to do more for our women, and another thing we need to do is to make sure that they get educated; they make better leaders when they are educated.

“If you follow what happened in Rivers State when I was a governor, we were rated second on the maternal-child mortality index, and to cure that, we had to establish health centres in every village.

“Each village has a medical centre; we employed two doctors and nurses while we paid N10,000 per woman that went for anti-natal, so our health centres were full every Friday because they were sure of going home with N10,000.

“They are not coming there for their health but for the money, and that N10,000 is economy. It’s key that we can’t separate the health of women from economic growth.”

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