Minister of State for Education, Barr Nyesom Wike on Friday accused his political opponents of masterminding the printing and circulation of campaign posters bearing his photograph and purporting his declaration for the 2015 Rivers State governorship election.
According to Special Assistant on Media to the Minister, Simeon Nwakaudu, the posters are part of an orchestrated plot by the minister’s political opponents and hired mercenaries to disparage him.
“Those behind the circulation of such posters are bad losers because the Rivers people and indeed, all Nigerians are better informed and too knowledgeable to be deceived by such fluke,” Nwakaudu said. “The action has 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 these posters wherever they are being circulated, Nwakaudu maintained 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, saying the Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC) is in a better position to know than his avowed enemies.
The statement warned these plotters to desist from the cheap blackmail aimed at over-heating the polity, reassuring that Honourable Minister Wike is too committed to the success of the Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan to indulge in such frivolities.
