The Rivers State Government has described as wicked reports of the killing of the son of Governor Nyesom Wike in the United States.
The social media was agog with the report that Wike’s son was shot dead in the United States for supporting the presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress and the president-elect Bola Tinubu in Saturday’s presidential elections.
However, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Chris Finebone, in a statement entitled ‘Yet again, another lie’, sent to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, said the governor neither has a son nor any child for that matter in the United States.
He said the post was the handiwork of those he described as wicked people who were bent on blackmailing and tarnishing the image of the Rivers State Governor, and urged members of the public to discountenance it.
The statement partly read, “This is a big lie by evil people. For the avoidance of doubt, Gov. Nyesom Wike has no son or child in the US. By the special grace of God, the governor’s children are safe and doing well where they are.
“This satanic rumour is yet another concoction by wicked people in their insidious quest to blackmail and tarnish the image of Gov. Wike. There is absolutely no truth in this cheap blackmail.
“The public should disregard and throw it into the trash can where it belongs.”
