Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South, Chief Edwin Clark, has urgently requested Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun to arrest and prosecute the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Nyesom Wike.
In a letter read during a press briefing at his Asokoro residence on Thursday, the Ijaw leader called on Egbetokun to take action against Wike for his remarks threatening to set fire to the states governed by the Peopleโs Democratic Party.
Recall that Wike, while speaking at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday during the partyโs state congress, warned the PDP governors to stay clear of the partyโs affairs in Rivers.
โLet 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 somebodyโ.
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โI pity those governors because I will put fire in their states. When God has given you peace, you say you donโt want peace โ anything you see, you takeโ, he said.
At the briefing, Clark denounced the former Rivers State governorโs comments as a โflagrant disrespectโ toward President Bola Tinubu, who appointed him. He described the remarks as โunbridledโ and potentially treasonous, capable of inciting violence in the country.
Clark also noted that similar offenses had led to the arrest of Presidential Candidate Omoyele Sowore and #EndBadGovernance protesters. He urged the IGP to take comparable action against the FCT Minister and compel him to retract his statements.