Edwin Clark
President Goodluck Jonathan’s political father and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to expel the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from the party, stressing that it was obvious the former President was working with the opposition to bring Jonathan down at the polls.
The one-time federal Commissioner for Information also dismissed the peace accord signed by the President Goodluck Jonathan, General Muhammadu Buhari and nine other presidential candidates of the various parties ahead of the presidential election, describing it as an exercise in futility.
Clark, who spoke while exchanging views with newsmen at his Asokoro residence in Abuja, shortly after receiving a delegation of the North Central PDP Network led by its Director General, Murtala Zubairu, Middle Belt Minority Youths and many other PDP campaign groups, alleged that although it was a good thing for President Jonathan to have signed the accord, “Buhari cannot be trusted to keep the agreement.”
He accused Buhari of not being likely to keep to the terms of the agreement against the backdrop of his refusal to appear before the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa’s National Reconciliation Panel, to answer questions on his activities as former Military Head of State.
Reacting to the sustained criticism of President Jonathan by Obasanjo, Chief Clark advised the leadership of PDP to stop begging the former president to support the party, saying, “That man (Obasanjo) should not be allowed to be in the party. You beg him all the time; he has made up his mind. He gathered APC women to abuse President Jonathan.’’
He reached the conclusion that for Obasanjo to defend Buhari over the N25billion which was allegedly unaccounted for at the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, which he (Buhari) headed showed that he was working for Jonathan to lose the election.
Hear him, “Obasanjo is defending him because he wants APC to win. A man you dissolved his committee, PTF, could not account for N25billion and you are now saying that the man is not corrupt… Buhari and Obasanjo are the same. They are in a marriage of convenience just to remove Jonathan. How much corruption have you found in Jonathan that you are calling him corrupt?” he added.
The South South leader further alleged that the irony in the country was that those who were corrupt are the ones labelling others as corrupt, probably because “they don’t know what the definition of corruption is. That is the big trouble in this country.”
Not yet done with the Abuja Accord, Chief Clark asserted that it meant nothing to him, even though he was quick to pointed out that he would be glad if the pact could enthrone the necessary peace before, during and after the Febuary elections.
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