2023: I Didn’t Say South South Can’t Win Presidency – Tambuwal

Advertisement

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has distanced himself from a report claiming that the South-South region cannot win the presidency for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Tambuwal, in a statement on Tuesday by his spokesman, Muhammad Bello, said the report attributed to him was false and misleading.

The governor denied mentioning anything regarding the South-South not winning the presidency during a meeting with some former principal officers of the National Assembly on Monday.

According to the presidential hopeful, the report was a distortion, malicious, misrepresentation of the facts stated by him during the meeting.

The statement reads: “The attention of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has been drawn to a mischievous headline and story by a newspaper, that said a certain region of the country cannot win the Presidency.

“Both the headline and what follows are a distortion, misrepresentation and mis-presentation of the facts as was stated by him.

“There were no innuendo or ‘veiled’ reference by Gov. Tambuwal to any statement made or credited to the South-south Governors during his reunion meeting with former states and federal legislators at the Fraiser Suites in Abuja today.

“He didn’t say the PDP or his colleagues, the South-south Governors or any aspirant from the region cannot win PDP Presidency.

“The report is simply malicious and should be disregarded as fallacious, divisive and outright blackmail.”