Elder statesman and chief of the Ijaw Nation, Edwin Clark, has urged the appearing Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Occasion, Umar Damagun, to desist from destroying the celebration.
Clark alleged that Damagun was working with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
In an open letter issued by Clark to the PDP chief on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, the elder statesman famous that Damagun’s actions relating to the disaster that had rocked the Rivers State Home of Meeting, amongst others, have been towards Part 109 as stipulated within the celebration’s structure.
He stated, “Your place, Mr. appearing Nationwide Chairman, is antithetical to the place of Part 109 of the structure. You took your celebration’s NEC to court docket, an organ you presided over. But you continue to have the presence of thoughts to stay in workplace, incomes advantages that include the workplace.
“From all indications, you might be conniving with detractors of PDP to smash the celebration, for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Permit Nigerians to resolve what celebration they need via the poll field.
“Cease colluding with Barr. Nyesom Wike to destroy the celebration. A day of reckoning will come for all of man’s actions.”
He suggested the PDP chief to not promote his “soul and conscience for pecuniary and worldly positive factors, in any other case, you, Barr Wike and your cohorts shall be consumed by the Rivers State disaster.”
Clark famous that the only goal of his letter was to induce Dmagun to “instantly arrange a probe panel/committee to probe members like Barr. Nyesom Wike, and if discovered responsible, to face the suitable sanctions as prescribed by the celebration’s structure.
“It’s not the establishing of a reconciliation committee below the chairmanship of Maj-Gen. Oyinlola, with whom once I mentioned, requested him whom he’s reconciling, as a result of the G-5 members have disintegrated.
“Whereas the governor of Oyo State, who was a member of the G-5, has retraced his steps again to his celebration totally, and at present chief of the celebration within the South West, the opposite three are floating about.”
Wike, since his appointment because the FCT Minister below the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, had been accused of switching his allegiance to the ruling APC.
In August 2023, Wike had dared the PDP from taking anti-party actions towards him, saying, “The one that will droop me is once I couldn’t produce a governor, three senators, Meeting members. I’ve not seen that particular person. No person will do it.”
The previous Rivers State Governor additionally famous that he was working for Tinubu, and never the APC.
He stated, “I’m not working for APC. I’m working for Tinubu who has belief in me to assist him ship the renewed hope.”
He added, “I owe no person any apology in any respect. I used to be in PDP and I labored for Ahmed Bola Tinubu to turn into the President of Nigeria.”
Clark, nevertheless, lamented at how Damagun took the celebration’s Nationwide Working Committee to court docket over the defection of the Martin Amaewhule-led faction in Rivers State.
“To induce you to additionally purge your self of all malfeasance. As appearing Nationwide Chairman of your celebration, you took your celebration’s NWC to court docket on the defection of the 27 members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting.
“It is because they didn’t depart the PDP correctly, they’re nonetheless members of the celebration, even after the 27 members had publicly declared that they’ve defected and had already been acquired by the APC,” he stated.
Clark, a former minister of knowledge within the defunct First Republic, insisted that Wike be probed for “anti-party actions” and for insulting a good chieftain of the celebration.
“Due to this fact, let me state once more, arrange a probe panel to research the apparent and open anti-party actions of Barr. Nyesom Wike and for insulting the foremost chief of the celebration, Senator Adolphus Wabara, Chairman, Board of the Trustees of the celebration, which is the soul of the celebration.
“In truth, he ought to be expelled from the celebration for his crime towards the celebration. I additionally want to use this medium to name on all accountable and cheap PDP celebration elders and members to take a daring step to flush out Barrister Wike from the celebration. He’s not above the celebration. He ought to be expelled from it,” the letter concluded.
In June 2024, Clark informed the chief of the Ijaw Folks’s Congress, Senator George Sekibo, to advise Wike, to let the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, have peace.
