Stop Working With Wike And APC To Destroy PDP, Edwin Clark Warns National Chairman Damagum

Stop Working With Wike And APC To Destroy PDP, Edwin Clark Warns National Chairman Damagum

National leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, has accused the acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Illiya Damagum, of colluding with enemies to destroy the party.

Clark, in a letter on Tuesday, addressed to Damagum, particularly accused the acting PDP National Chairman of colluding with the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, to work for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in destroying the PDP.

The Ijaw leader also faulted the reconciliation committee set up by the PDP leadership.

According to him, Damagum himself is at fault for taking the party’s NWC to court on the defection of the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

The elder statesman also specifically called for the expulsion of Wike from the party, saying the FCT Minister is not above the law.

The letter by Clark reads: “The purpose of this Open Letter, therefore, Mr. Acting National Chairman of PDP, is: “To call on you to immediately set up a probe panel/committee to probe members like Barr. Nyesom Wike, and if found guilty, to face the appropriate sanctions as prescribed by the party’s constitution, and not the setting up of a Reconciliation Committee under the chairmanship of Maj. Gen. Oyinlola, with whom when I discussed, asked him whom he is reconciling, because the G-5, members 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.

“To urge you to also purge yourself of all malfeasance. As Acting National Chairman of your party, you took your party’s NWC to court on the defection of the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, that because they did 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.

“Your position Mr. Acting National Chairman is antithetical to the position of Section 109. You took your party’s NEC to court, an organ you presided over. Yet you still have the presence of mind to remain in office, earning benefits that come with the office. From all indications, you are conniving with detractors of PDP to ruin the party, for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Allow Nigerians to decide what party they want through the ballot box.

Stop colluding with Nyesom Wike to destroy the party. A day of reckoning will come for all of man’s activities.

“Therefore, let me state again, set up a probe panel to investigate the obvious and open antiparty activities of Barr. Nyesom Wike and for insulting the foremost leader of the party, Senator Adolphus Wabara, Chairman, Board of the Trustees of the party, which is the soul of the party. 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.”