Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark has asked the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Iliya Damagun to show the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Nyesom Wike way our of the party in order for it to survive.
According to Clark, Wike should be expelled from the party for what he described as his crime against the party, just as he also called on all responsible and reasonable PDP party elders and members to take a bold step to flush out Barrister Wike from the party as he is not above the party. which explains why he should be expelled from the party.
Clark in an open letter to the Acting National Chairman of PDP, explained how the former Governor of Rivers State is allegedly using his closeness to President Bola Tinubu to intimidate the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara and the party, adding that he could no longer remain silent while Wike allegedly continues to harass the governor.
The letter which the third of its type to the Acting National Chairman by Clark was read yesterday during a press briefing at his Asokoro residence, Abuja. It is titled, Open Letter to the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP : To be or not to be."
The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) who noted that he could not stand by and allow the minister to continue to hound the governor.
The leader of the Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF who noted that he was already a politician before Wike was born, told Damagun that if they do not stop the Minister, the matter will consume him, Wike and their cohorts, just as he accused Wike of attempting to destabilize the Rivers State government led by Governor Fubara, claiming that Wike, emboldened by his ties to the Presidency, is using his influence to intimidate party members, especially those in Rivers State who oppose him.
In the letter, the elderstatesman has again asked the Acting National Chairman and the National Working Committee, NWC to as a matter of urgency, set up a probe panel to investigate the obvious and open antiparty activities of Barr. Nyesom Wike and for insulting the foremost leader of the party, Chairman, Board of the Trustees of the party and former President of the Senate, Senator Adolphus Wabara, which is the soul of the party.
Clark who disclosed that he was writing a book titled, “PDP: to be or no to be,” said that after criticizing former Governors Bello Matawalle (Zamfara), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi) and Ben Ayade (Cross River) for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Wike is now “dancing naked” with the same ruling party.
“After conceding that former Rivers State governor, Peter Odili and his wife made him what he is today and will forever remain grateful to them, he is now abusing them. I won’t allow him to destroy Rivers State."
He alleged that "having failed to use the APC to disrupt the PDP, Wike is now using the party giant itself. This same man, Wike, who said before, that APC is cancer-free or something like that. And abuses everything about APC. Is now dancing Tinubu's song. Even in the kitchen of the chief of staff of President Tinubu. Wike talked about structures, talking about structures, who is Wike to talk about structures?."
In the letter, Clark also referred to recent report by This Day newspaper, which detailed an incident where the PDP's National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Adeyemi Ajibade (SAN), was allegedly sidelined by the party’s Acting National Chairman and National Secretary in legal matters.
According to the report, Ajibade was "shocked" by their actions, which were seen as counter to the processes he had filed in court.
Clark said, "My Dear Acting National Chairman, This letter, no doubt is my third letter to you, since you assumed office as the Acting National Chairman of the PDP. And I have decided to give it the title which I am giving to the book I am writing on the PDP, which by God’ s grace will be out soon: “Whither PDP: To be or not to Be.” The title which I decided to give to the book, has even become more expedient now due to the anti-party activities of Barr. Nyesom Wike, yourself and the National Secretary of the party, Mr. Samuel Anyanwu."
He further said that "the purpose of this Open Letter, therefore, Mr. Acting National Chairman of PDP, is: To call on you to immediately set up a probe panel/committee to probe members like Barr. Nyesom Wike, and if found guilty, to face the appropriate sanctions as prescribed by the party’ s constitution, and not the setting up of a Reconciliation Committee under the chairmanship of Maj. Gen. Oyinlola, with whom when I discussed, asked him whom he is reconciling, because the G-5, members have disintegrated. While the Governor of Oyo State who was a member of the G-5, has retraced his steps back to his party fully, and today leader of the party in the South-West, the other three are floating about.
"To urge you to also purge yourself of all malfeasance. As Acting National Chairman of your party, you took your party’ s NWC to court on the defection of the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, that because they did leave the PDP properly, they are still members of the party, even after the 27 members had publicly declared that they have defected, and had already been received by the APC. Your position Mr. Acting National Chairman is antithetical to the position of Section 109. You took your party’ s NEC to court, an organ you preside over. Yet you still have the presence of mind to remain in office, earning benefits that come with the office. From all indications, you are conniving with detractors of PDP to ruin the party, for the All Progressives’ Congress (APC). Allow Nigerians to decide what party they want through the ballot box.
Stop colluding with Barr. Nyesom Wike to destroy the party. A day of reckoning will come for all of man’ s activities.
"I wish and pray that you will not sell your soul and conscience for pecuniary and worldly gains, otherwise you, Barr Wike and your cohorts, will be consumed by the Rivers State crisis.
"Therefore, let me state again, set up a probe panel to investigate the obvious and open antiparty activities of Barr. Nyesom Wike and for insulting the foremost leader of the party, Senator Adolphus Wabara, Chairman, Board of the Trustees of the party, which is the soul of the party. In fact, he should be expelled from the party for his crime against the party.
"I also wish to use this medium to call on all responsible and reasonable PDP party elders and members to take a bold step to flush out Barrister Wike from the party. He is not above the party. He should be expelled from it.
Just last night, I watched the news when some persons claiming to speak in the interest of the PDP, in a press conference, were berating Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, a young man who today, is the only person who is openly speaking against the activities of Barr. Wike which are against the party.
"This group claim that Hon. Ugochinyere is working for the APC. If I may ask these young men, between Hon. Ugochinyere and Barr. Wike who is working for the APC, who is playing antiparty activities? I pray that these young men will search their conscience because everybody knows that Barr. Wike’ s madness in politics has made him dance naked in the public, with one leg in the APC and the other in the PDP, with all the intention to bring down Siminilayi Fubara’s government Nyesom Wike has to go, if PDP must survive. This is my humble submission."
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