{"id":218337,"date":"2022-09-24T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T18:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=218337"},"modified":"2022-09-24T19:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T18:54:27","slug":"tinubu-never-offered-wike-senatorial-ticket-govs-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/24\/tinubu-never-offered-wike-senatorial-ticket-govs-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu never offered Wike senatorial ticket \u2013 Gov&#8217;s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Ebiri, media aide to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied reports that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, offered his principal senatorial ticket when they met in London, last month.<\/p>\n<p>Ebiri said report that Wike stated that during the media chat on Friday not only was the report untrue but also misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Assistant on Media to the Governor, who stated this in a statement on Saturday, however, agreed that Wike did said he was asked to go pick ticket for the red chamber of the national assembly, which he declined, pointing out that he neither mentioned Tinubu nor anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cOur attention has been drawn to a misleading report in some national dailies and online newspapers, particularly, Sahara Reporters that the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, offered the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/23\/i-rejected-tinubus-senatorial-ticket-offer-wike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">senatorial ticket<\/a> to defect to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Wike was alleged to have disclosed this during the media chat that was aired on Channels Television, African Independent Television, Nigerian Television Authority and TVC on Friday, September 23, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to state emphatically that this news is 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo lay the facts bare, we have decided to include herein the transcript of what governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/24\/after-explosive-interview-on-pdp-crisis-wike-jets-out-of-nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wike<\/a> said concerning senatorial form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll know that those people are not serious to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never collected senatorial form. Even after the whole thing, people said come and go for Senate, I said no. I won\u2019t do that. I\u2019ve already made a commitment that this Senate ticket should be zoned to this area (Etche) because they\u2019ve never had it before. I must not be in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, Ebiri said, \u201cIn an era of increasingly divisive political climate, the tendency to pervert the truth is extremely high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is on this basis that we wish to remind journalists that journalism\u2019s first obligation is to the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this critical juncture in our nation, we wish to remind journalists that getting the facts right is the cardinal principle of journalism. Journalists are enjoined to always strive for accuracy and give all the relevant facts in their report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, urge the unsuspecting public not to give any credence to these false, baseless and ill-motivated reports.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Ebiri, media aide to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied reports that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, offered his principal senatorial ticket when they met in London, last month. 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