Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader Chief Edwin Clark has told the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Iliya Damagun, that Nyesom Wike must leave the party for it to survive.
He made this demand in an open letter to the leadership of the main opposition party in Abuja on Tuesday, pointing out how the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is allegedly using his proximity to President Bola Tinubu to intimidate Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the party.
The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), who read the letter at a press briefing in his residence, said he could not stand by and allow the minister to continue to hound the governor.
Noting that he was already a politician before Wike was born, Clark told Damagun that if they do not stop the minister, the situation will consume the party leader.
The elder statesman, who revealed that he is writing a book titled “PDP: To Be or Not to Be,” pointed out that after criticizing former Governors Bello Matawalle (Zamfara), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), and Ben Ayade (Cross River) for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the FCT minister is now “dancing naked” with the same ruling party.
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“After conceding that former Rivers State Governor Peter Odili and his wife made him what he is today and for which he will forever be grateful, he is now abusing them. I won’t allow him to destroy Rivers State,” Clark declared.
He alleged that having failed to use the APC to disrupt the PDP, Wike is now using the party itself.
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