By Ishaya Ibrahim
Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark, has rejected the eight point resolution brokered by President Bola Tinubu in resolving the feud between Governor Sim Fubara and his processor, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
In the eight point’s resolution brokered by Tinubu, only one favours Fubara, which is the discontinuation of any impeachment proceedings against him. The other seven favoured Wike. They include; the reinstatement of pro-Wike faction of lawmakers, re-presenting the budget to the Assembly which would be controlled by pro-Wike lawmakers, reinstatement of commissioners and other aides who resigned, and other such conditions.
But Clark said the resolution is unacceptable, particularly to the Ijaw ethnic nationality.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, December 19, Clark said the eight-point resolution is undemocratic, dictatorial, and one-sided, aimed at handing over the political leadership of Rivers State to the former governor of the state, Nyesom Wike.
He said from the terms of the purported settlement, it is obvious that President Tinubu used his role as a mediator, to once again, show gratitude to the FCT minister for “delivering” Rivers state to him during the last presidential elections.
Clark, who had earlier commended the president for intervening in the Rivers issue, however, threatened to take legal action against the resolutions.
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He said: “I, Senator Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, as leader of the Ijaw nation, and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), decided to hold this emergency press conference with the full authority of my people. We are prepared to face any consequences that may result in the political crisis in Rivers State.
“We will resist any attempt subtle, subterranean, covert, overt, to make an elected Ijaw son, Siminialayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, a servant, a stooge to Nyesome Wike, who had boasted that any attempt by the Governor to touch his so-called ‘Wike’s structure’, with the connivance and support of President Bola Tinubu, will be resisted by us.
“Like I said, we will go to 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.”
