Why I Said No When Tinubu Wooed Me To Go For Senate – Wike

Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, revealed on Friday that Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, persuaded him to run for the Senate after he was denied the PDP’s presidential nomination.

Wike made the comments in a press conference with journalists in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, where he spoke extensively about some of the covert politics that took place before and after the PDP convention, which saw Atiku Abubakar declared the party’s presidential nominee.

The Rivers State Governor added that he refused to make decisions that will affect the overall interest of the party despite the internal crisis at the national level, which he said was fomented by Atiku, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal and the party’s chair, Iyorchia Ayu.

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He, however, stated that Ayu step down and give room to equity and fairness in the party.

Asked if his actions after the primaries were not traits of a bad loser, he replied, I never collected senatorial form, other candidates did and that is how you know those who are serious and those who are unserious .

He opined that he didn’t contest for the ticket because he wanted to settle for the position of vice president.

Imagine a national chairman, Ayu went ahead to describe Tambuwal as hero of the convention,

“You heard what Jang said, he described Ayu as a referee who helped one of the sides to score a goal and then blew a whistle that a goal had been scored.

“There’s nothing Ayu did not do for me not to emerge as the PDP candidate. Ayu did everything to manipulate the system to ensure that all the numbers did not add up,” he said.