Rivers Crisis: Clark Reacts To ‘Tinubu’s Settlement’

Rivers Crisis: Clark Reacts To ‘Tinubu’s Settlement’

The leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Pa Edwin Clark, has characterized the recent reconciliation between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, as an “imposed settlement.” Pa Edwin Clark expressed his dissatisfaction with the communique issued after the reconciliatory meeting, describing it as “baffling, appalling, and unacceptable,” particularly to the Ijaw ethnic nationality.

The political landscape in Rivers State has been tumultuous in recent months, with the state House of Assembly becoming a battleground.

The conflict between Wike and Fubara resulted in lawmakers splitting, with 27 of them defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party in which Wike currently serves as a minister in the central government.

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The feud led to parallel sittings, an impeachment plot against the governor, the demolition of the Assembly complex, and numerous resignations of pro-Wike commissioners in Fubara’s cabinet. While the President and elder statesmen had intervened in the crisis earlier in October, it continued to escalate.

Following Monday’s meeting, the conflicting parties agreed to withdraw all matters instituted in the courts by Fubara and his team immediately. The Wike camp also consented to dropping all impeachment proceedings initiated against the governor by the Rivers State House of Assembly.

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The resolution also acknowledged the leadership of Martin Amaewhule in the Rivers State House of Assembly instead of Edison Ehie.

In his immediate response to the armistice, Clark said, “From the terms of settlement, it is obvious that President Tinubu sees his role as a mediator, to once again, show gratitude to the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), for ‘delivering’ Rivers State to him during the past Presidential elections, having first of gratified him by making him the Minister of FCT.”

“The eight resolutions reached, are the most unconstitutional, absurd and obnoxious resolutions at settling feuding parties that I have ever witnessed in my life.”

The nonagenarian said Fubara was “ambushed and intimidated into submission”.

“President Tinubu should know that with all the powers he possesses, he cannot override the Constitution. From all that transpired at the meeting, the laws of the land have not been obeyed. President Tinubu simply sat over a meeting where the Constitution, which is the fulcrum of his office as President and which he swore to uphold and abide by, was truncated and desecrated.”

“Like I said, we will go to go court to resist this oppressive action using all available constitutional and legal means. It is on this note I wish to appeal to the youths who are aggrieved, to remain calm, as we will use legal means to dethrone this hydra headed monster, called oppression,” Clark said.

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