What PDP needs is probe panel, not reconciliation committee, says Clark Clark

Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has faulted the setting up of a reconciliation committee by the leadership of main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Clark said the PDP needs a probe panel that would examine the activities of some party members who have been engaging in anti-party activities.

The former National Commissioner stated this in an open letter he wrote to the party’s Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Illiya Damagum, yesterday in Abuja.

He urged Damagum to purge himself of his alleged wrongdoings.

The letter reads: “The purpose of this Open Letter, therefore, Mr. Acting National Chairman of PDP, is: ‘To call on you to immediately set up a probe panel/committee to probe members, like Nyesom Wike, and if found guilty, to face the appropriate sanctions prescribed by the party’s constitution, and not the setting up of a Reconciliation Committee under the chairmanship of Maj.-Gen. (Olagunsoye) Oyinlola, with whom when I discussed, asked him whom he is reconciling, because the G-5 members have disintegrated. While the governor of Oyo State, who was a member of the G-5, has retraced his steps back to his party fully and is today the leader of the party in the Southwest, the other three are floating about.

“Your position, Mr. Acting National Chairman, is antithetical to the position of Section 109. You took your party’s National Executive Council (NEC) to court; an organ you preside over. Yet, you still have the presence of mind to remain in office, earning benefits that come with the office. From all indications, you are conniving with detractors of PDP to ruin the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Allow Nigerians to decide what party they want through the ballot box. Stop colluding with Nyesom Wike to destroy the party. A day of reckoning will come for all of man’s activities.

“Therefore, let me state again: set up a probe panel to investigate the obvious and open anti-party activities of Nyesom Wike and for insulting the foremost leader of the party, Senator Adolphus Wabara, the Chairman of the Board of the Trustees (BoT) of the party, which is the soul of the party. In fact, he should be expelled from the party for his crime against the party.

“I also wish to use this medium to call on all responsible and reasonable PDP party elders and members to take a bold step to flush out Wike from the party. He is not above the party. He should be expelled from it.”
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