For PDP to survive Wike must leave - Clark

Former Commissioner for Information Edwin Clark has said for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to survive, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike must leave the party.

Clark made this in an open letter to the National Chairman of the PDP Iliya Damagun in Abuja on Tuesday,

The South South leader pointed out how Wike s allegedly using his closeness to President Bola Tinubu to intimidate Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the party.

Clark, who read the letter at a press briefing in his residence, said he could not stand by and watch Wike continue to attack the governor.

He stated that he was already a politician before Wike was born, and that if the PDP 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 joining the All Progressives Congress (APC), the FCT minister is now “dancing naked” with the same party.

“This is the third letter I am writing to the PDP National Chairman, and if they don’t stop meddling in Rivers issues, it will consume Damagum and Wike. Wike must leave PDP for the party to survive,” the letter read in part.

“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.

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He alleged that having failed to use the APC to disrupt the PDP, the former Rivers State governor is now using the party itself.

Rivers State came under intense political crisis since Governor Fubara assumed office.

The crisis led to the emergence of two parallel speakers, Martin Amaewhule and Victor Oko-Jumbo.

President Tinubu’s intervention did not yield the expected result, as the political supporters of the two parties continue to go at each other.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan also called for peace in the Rivers State political crisis.

Jonathan, during the unveiling of the Trans-Kalabari Road in Rivers State, urged Fubara and Wike, to work together.