The Rivers State Government on Saturday denied reports making the rounds that governor Nyesom Wike said that presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, offered him a senatorial ticket to defect and work for APC.
This was made known through a statement signed and released by governor Wike’s Special Assistant, Media, Kelvin Ebiri.
Ebiri noted that there was no time Wike made such a statement during Friday’s media chat.
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.”
Ebiri then released excerpts from part of Wike’s interview to buttress his point
The excerpt reads in part ‘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.
‘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 the unsuspecting public not to give any credence to “this false, baseless and ill motivated reports.”