Acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Umar Damagum has replied elder statesman Edwin Clark who accused him of being a tool FCT minister Nyesom Wike uses to fight Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
In an open letter to the PDP national leaders, Clark also called for Wike’s expulsion, saying the minister has to leave for the party to survive.
Fubara and Wike have been at loggerheads for months over the state’s resources.
During the inauguration of the PDP national reconciliation and disciplinary committees in Abuja on Wednesday, Damagum said Clark should play a fatherly role to all and stop taking sides.
“I will borrow Olisah Metuh’s remarks from 2015, when Edwin Clark left the party,” he said.
“There’s no doubt that he is an elder statesman. But I thought that when you reach that age, God has given you the opportunity and wisdom to be a father to all, not to engage in public arguments.
“He has all it takes to do the needful, not by taking a sentimental approach to the situation. I was not raised to be disrespectful to elders, so I don’t intend to dwell on this further.”
