South South Leader, Edwin Clark has reprimanded FCT minister Nyesom Wike as a man of contradiction and inconsistencies from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries where he vowed to support whosoever emerged as candidate, to his vow not to be minister, to his scathing excoriation of the All Progressives Congress, APC, which he likened to a cancerous party,
According to the elder statesman, everything Wike supposedly stood for have been repudiated by his fickle mindedness.
In an an Open letter dated June 9, 2024, Clark rebuked Senator George Sekibo, the senator who represented Rivers East, and his group and urged them to exercise caution in the way and manner they go about in the matter of the FCT Minister.
The leader of Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF was responding to Sekibo’s press briefing recently in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, where he and others visited the Ijaw National Congress, INC, leader, Prof. Benjamin Okaba.
Clark’s letter was also copied by President Bola Tinubu; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator George Akume and Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State.
Recall that Sekibo, who spoke on behalf of the leaders, had claimed that the Rivers Ijaw People’s Congress, RIPCO, was in support of Wike, who has demonstrated his love for the Ijaw nation.
This however is inconsistent with the political crisis in Rivers, in which the FCT minister is seen as fighting an Ijaw governor.
Clark warned Sekibo on the need for caution in overstating the role of Wike in Rivers politics with regard to the Ijaws.
He recalled that after the tenure of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in 2015, former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, pleaded with the people to support Wike for governorship, though it was the turn of the people of Ijaw.
According to the elder statesman, aside from God, the biggest players who supported Wike to rise to his political level today, were the Ijaws, including himself.
Clark noted that it was a shock to the entire Ijaw people in Rivers State and in all the other states, but they had to soft pedal and support Wike to contest in respect for Jonathan and his wife as well as for the sake of peace.
He stated that, later Amaechi begged Jonathan to make Wike a minister, which led to his emergence as Minister of State, Education and later acted as the minister when Prof. Ruqayyah Rufa’i was removed as the minister.
The elder stateman emphasised that at that time, Wike’s highest position before coming to Abuja was as local government chairman and later Chief of Staff to Amaechi, who was his kinsman.
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