Former Federal Commissioner for Information and Leader of the Pan Niger-Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to as a matter of urgency arrest and prosecute the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
In a letter to the IGP which was read on Thursday during a press briefing at his Asokoro, Abuja residence, the Ijaw leader asked Egbetokun to arrest Wike over his threat to set fire to the states of governors of the People’s Democratic Party.
Recall that Wike, while speaking at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday during the party’s state congress, warned the PDP governors to steer clear of the party’s affairs in Rivers.
At the briefing, Clark said that the words of the former Rivers State governor marked a “flagrant disrespect to the person of President Bola Tinubu, who appointed him”, describing his comment as “unbridled”, and a form of treason as it was capable of inciting violence in the country.
According to the elder statesman, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, and #EndBadGovernance protesters had been arrested for similar offences, adding that the IGP must do the same for the FCT Minister and get him to retract his statements.
