According to Wike, there was no time in his media chat on Friday that he made such a statement about the APC leader, Tinubu.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has described as false news reports quoting him as saying that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, offered him a senatorial ticket.
Wike’s Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, said in a statement on Saturday that there was no time during the governor’s media chat on Friday that he made such a statement about Tinubu.
He said the story was false, baseless and ludicrous as the Rivers State governor “throughout the media chat never mentioned the name of the APC presidential candidate or alluded to him offering him a senatorial ticket.”
Attached to the statement was the transcript of Wike’s interview in which he said: “First of all, this is how you know those who are prepared to run an election. Some of them collected presidential form at the same time collected senatorial form. You’ll know that those people are not serious to run.
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“I never collected senatorial form. Even after the whole thing, people said come and go for Senate, I said no, I won’t do that. I’ve already made a commitment that this Senate ticket should be zoned to this area (Etche) because they’ve never had it before. I must not be in power.”
Ebiri urged members of the public not to give any credence to “this false, baseless and ill-motivated reports.”
Wike, who is currently in London, met Tinubu in Europe sometime in August.