Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal has denied reports attributed to him that a certain region cannot win the presidency if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) picks its presidential candidate from there.
A statement by his Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Muhammad Bello, claimed the reports were untrue and misleading.
It reads: “The attention of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has been drawn to a mischievous headline and story by a newspaper, that said a certain region of the country cannot win the Presidency.
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“Both the headline and what follows are a distortion, misrepresentation and mis-presentation of the facts as was stated by him.
“There were no innuendo or ‘veiled’ reference by Gov. Tambuwal to any statement made or credited to the South-south Governors during his reunion meeting with former states and federal legislators at the Fraiser Suites in Abuja today.
“He didn’t say the PDP or his colleagues, the South-south Governors or any aspirant from the region cannot win PDP Presidency.
“The report is simply malicious and should be disregarded as fallacious, divisive and outright blackmail.”