Elder statesman, Edwin Clark has written to President Bola Tinubu, seeking his intervention over the lingering crisis rocking Rivers State.
The oil-rich state has been embroiled in a crisis following the fallout between the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
Worried by the situation, Clark urged the president to act decisively and uphold his democratic principles to restore peace in Rivers State and address security challenges elsewhere in the country.
In his letter dated June 25, he warned that Wike’s loyalty was only to himself and that his actions might undermine the President’s efforts to resolve the crisis.
“Mr. President, you can see clearly the wicked and mischievous confession of your Minister Nyesom Wike sabotaging the democratically elected Governor of Rivers State and his legitimate administration in order to bring down the government because he wants to be the leader and continue maintaining his structure in Rivers State,” he stated.
“Nyesom Wike has definitely danced naked in the market with one leg in PDP and the second leg in APC, using the two legs to create crisis and insecurity in his own State, Rivers State and it may be too late for Mr. President to discover him.
“Mr President, even though you trusted Nyesom Wike to the extent of appointing him as Minister of FCT, you did not really know who Nyesom Wike is.
“Wike is only loyal to himself and nobody else, irrespective of his feigned allegiance. He may kowtow and genuflect before a political leader, as he is currently doing in Abuja, but once he can no longer use you, he goes into a fit of incoherent vituperative verbal assault, denigrating his benefactors.”
