Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has written to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, urging him to arrest and prosecute Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).
In a letter to the IGP, read on Thursday during a press event at his Asokoro residence, the Ijaw leader requested that Egbetokun arrest Wike for threatening to “set fire” to the states of Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Recall that Wike, speaking at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday at the party’s state congress, advised the party’s governors to stay out of Rivers issues.
“Let me assure all of you, not while we live will anybody take away the structure of the PDP from us. But let me tell people, I hear some governors who say they will take over the structure and give it back to somebody.
“I pity those governors because I will put fire in their states. When God has given you peace, you say you don’t want peace – anything you see, you take.”
At the briefing, Clark stated that the former Rivers State governor’s words were a “flagrant disrespect to the person of President Bola Tinubu, who appointed him,” describing his comments as “unbridled” and claiming that they were a form of treason because they could incite violence in the country.
According to the elder statesman, the African Action Congress’ Presidential Candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and #EndBadGovernance demonstrators have been detained for similar offences, and the IGP must do the same for the FCT Minister and force him to renounce his words.
Source: TheGuardian