The office of the minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike has dissociated the minister from campaign posters purporting his declaration for the 2015 governorship election in Rivers State.
In a statement signed by Wike’s Special Assistant on Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, he said: “this is an orchestrated plot by the minister’s political opponents and hired mercenaries to disparage Hon (Chief) Nyesom Wike”.
The statement described those behind the circulation of such posters as “bad losers because the Rivers people and indeed, all Nigerians are better informed and too knowledgeable to be deceived by such fluke, stressing that the action had no other motive than to present the Honourable minister of state for education as an over-ambitious politician”.
While urging the members of the public to disregard the posters wherever they were being circulated, the statement noted that “they have nothing to do with the Honourable Minister, who could not have indulged in any act aimed at flouting the ban on 2015 political campaign by the INEC, and is in a better position to know than his avowed enemies”.
The statement warned the plotters to desist from the cheap blackmail aimed at over-heating the polity, reassuring that the Minister was too committed to the success of the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan to indulge in frivolities.
In the recent times, speculations have been rife that Wike is nursing ambition to contest the 2015 gubernatorial election in Rivers State.
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