I rejected Tinubu’s senatorial ticket offer – Wike

 The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, today, revealed that the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, wooed him to join the ruling party with a senatorial ticket.

Nyesom Wike ( River State Governor) and Bola Tinubu ( Presidential candidate for APC).

He said the former Lagos State governor offered him the ticket after the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, failed to fulfill his promise after he emerged as the PDP’s presidential flag bearer.

He, however, said he turned down the offer and insisted that he would remain in the main opposition party despite his grievances, adding that he never contested the primary to settle for a vice-presidential or senatorial ticket.

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"I didn’t contest so I can become a vice presidential candidate, I am not like others who were not serious and bought senatorial form alongside presidential form and that’s why when Tinubu offered me senate slot, I didn’t go for it,’’ wike said during an ongoing media party in Port Harcourt.

Newsmen had on July 8 2022 reported that some governors elected under the platform of APC met with Wike in Porth Harcourt, Rivers State’s capital ahead of the 2023 elections.

The governors include Kayode Fayemi; Rotimi Akeredolu and Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Ekiti, Ondo, and Lagos States and other entourage respectively.

But when asked today if other political parties are wooing him to join them, Wike said, “They know I am important and that is why they are wooing me, you see, if you’re an asset, people must come and talk to you. Who is a pretty girl that nobody wants to talk to?"

Told From : Idowu Abdullahi and Oluwapelumi Adeniran