Clark calls for Wike’s arrest on terrorism charges

Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has written to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, to urgently arrest and prosecute the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Nyesom Wike.

In a letter to the IGP, read on Thursday during a press briefing at his Asokoro residence, the Ijaw leader asked Egbetokun to arrest Wike over his comments threatening to “set fire” to the states of Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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 stay clear of the party’s affairs in Rivers.

“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,” he said.

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 comments as “unbridled” and adding that his comments were a form of treason as they were 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.