BY SIMON  EBEGBULEM

BENIN—National Vice-Chairman, South South of All Progressives Congress, APC and former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, weekend, described as misleading, reports that the party had adopted Mr Festus Keyamo as its candidate for the forthcoming bye election for the Delta Central senatorial seat in Delta State.

He pointed out that while APC regrets the sudden and untimely death of Senator Pius Ewherido, who was representing the senatorial district before his death, the senate and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were yet to declare the seat vacant, therefore, it would be premature and misleading for anyone to claim that he had been adopted for the senatorial contest.

Chief Ikimi, in a resolution adopted after a meeting of the three legacy parties, said that Keyamo had not been adopted by the party.