Ruben Abati, too small to blackmail Chief E.K Clerk – Evah.

The coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) Comrade Joseph EVAH has described a social media story circulated by Reuben Abati titled “Edwin Clark will abandon Fubara as he did to Jonathan when he lost re-election” as a senseless out burst from one of the spies planted inside Jonathan’s government to feed the opposition with what is happening in the villa but Chief E.K Clerk frustrated them.

According to Evah “In every government in Nigeria, opposition element planted spies or their agent to derail policies of those in office. Reuben Abati was one of the undercover spies planted then inside the villa during Jonathan’s era. They deceived former President Goodluck Jonathan to change the name of University of Lagos (UNILAG) to Abiola University knowing well that Yoruba elites will never allow it. But they did it to ridicule Jonathan as a powerless president, sponsored by the opposition through their agent like Abati in the villa. There were several nonsense advice they cooked-up but Chief Clark stopped them as an experienced politician in different governments right from General Gowon’s era as minister of information. If Chief Clark was not in Abuja throughout Jonathan’s era, those Judas who collect salaries from two sources (Jonathan’s government and opposition) would have caused disaster for Jonathan’s government”.

“Like what Pa Adesanya was doing during Obasanjo’s era and what Pa Adebanjo, the yoruba leader of today is doing in Tinubu’s government, they are of the same age group of Chief E.K Clark playing the role of father figure and as nationalist, they are bound to challenge any unacceptable policies of their sons in office in the nation’s interest. Does that mean betrayers? Or they have betrayed their people in office? It is very clear that Abati is seriously pained because Chief Clark did not allow him and his co-travellers do whatever they like in the villa for their personal gains”.

Evah further said “political betrayal by elders is not in our character as Ijaw people. It was Abati’s tribe that displayed political betrayal by elders in the first Republic that almost consumed his tribe and other Nigerians saved the situation. He should gather intellectuals from his homeland to carry out research on the effect of political betrayal by elders in his homeland for the sake of their future generations.