Fubara should face crisis like leader, Wike replies Clark
By Jeffrey Agbo
FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, has responded to elder statesman, Edwin Clark, who called for his expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Clark chided Wike in an open letter to the PDP national leadership. He said the former Rivers governor was using his relationship with President Bola Tinubu to intimidate his successor in Rivers, Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
However, addressing a media briefing to mark his one year in office as FCT minister, Wike said: “I don’t know the party Chief Clark belongs to, but in 2014 when I came out to run, he said no because its the turn of the Ijaws.
“He said nothing will make me to win but to the glory of God I won.
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“I wasn’t a bad person when I championed for an Ijaw man to be governor but I have become a bad person because there are issues. There is nothing Clark has not said but I vowed never to respond.
“He spoke about southern President which I supported, he spoke about power rotation to the South; which I believed in. So, what crime have I committed?
“In leadership, everything must not be smooth; I had my own crisis when I was there. Did I blame anybody? I faced the crisis squarely. When I was there you all saw what the Federal Government did to me. Did I accuse any ethnic group? No.
“If you are in a leadership position, you should be able to stand and face the crisis, that’s what politics is all about. Sometimes it will be good and other times it won’t be rosy.”