Elder statesman and chief of the Ijaw Community, Edwin Clark, has recommended the appearing Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Birthday celebration, Umar Damagun, to desist from destroying the occasion.
Clark alleged that Damagun used to be running with the Minister of the Federal Capital Range, Nyesom Wike.
In an not hidden letter issued by way of Clark to the PDP chief on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, the elder statesman famous that Damagun’s movements in regards to the disaster that had rocked the Rivers Order Area of Meeting, amongst others, had been towards Division 109 as stipulated within the occasion’s charter.
He mentioned, “Your place, Mr. appearing Nationwide Chairman, is antithetical to the location of Division 109 of the charter. You took your occasion’s NEC to courtroom, an organ you presided over. But you continue to have the presence of thoughts to stay in place of business, incomes advantages that include the place of business.
“From all indications, you’re conniving with detractors of PDP to smash the occasion, for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Permit Nigerians to come to a decision what occasion they would like in the course of the poll field.
“Stop colluding with Barr. Nyesom Wike to destroy the party. A day of reckoning will come for all of man’s activities.”
He recommended the PDP chief to not promote his “soul and conscience for pecuniary and worldly gains, otherwise, you, Barr Wike and your cohorts will be consumed by the Rivers State crisis.”
Clark famous that the only real goal of his letter used to be to induce Dmagun to “right away arrange a probe panel/committee to probe participants like Barr. Nyesom Wike, and if discovered accountable, to stand the right sanctions as prescribed by way of the occasion’s charter.
“It’s not the putting in of a reconciliation committee underneath the chairmanship of Maj-Gen. Oyinlola, with whom once I mentioned, requested him whom he’s reconciling, for the reason that G-5 participants 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.”
Wike, since his appointment because the FCT Minister underneath the President Bola Tinubu-led management, were accused of switching his allegiance to the ruling APC.
In August 2023, Wike had dared the PDP from taking anti-party movements towards him, pronouncing, “The person who will suspend me is when I couldn’t produce a governor, three senators, Assembly members. I have not seen that person. Nobody will do it.”
The previous Rivers Order Governor additionally famous that he used to be running for Tinubu, and now not the APC.
He mentioned, “I am not working for APC. I am working for Tinubu who has trust in me to help him deliver the renewed hope.”
He added, “I owe nobody any apology at all. I was in PDP and I worked for Ahmed Bola Tinubu to become the President of Nigeria.”
Clark, on the other hand, lamented at how Damagun took the occasion’s Nationwide Operating Committee to courtroom over the defection of the Martin Amaewhule-led faction in Rivers Order.
“To induce you to additionally purge your self of all malfeasance. As appearing Nationwide Chairman of your occasion, you took your occasion’s NWC to courtroom at the defection of the 27 participants of the Rivers Order Area of Meeting.
“This is because they did not 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,” he mentioned.
Clark, a former minister of data within the defunct First Republic, insisted that Wike be probed for “anti-party activities” and for insulting a credible chieftain of the occasion.
“Due to this fact, let me condition once more, arrange a probe panel to research the clear and not hidden anti-party actions of Barr. Nyesom Wike and for insulting the key chief of the occasion, Senator Adolphus Wabara, Chairman, Board of the Trustees of the occasion, which is the soul of the occasion.
“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,” the letter concluded.
In June 2024, Clark advised the chief of the Ijaw Family’s Congress, Senator George Sekibo, to advise Wike, to let the Rivers Order Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, have ease.