Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has cautioned elder statesman Edwin Clark over his open letter to the party leadership, describing his actions as being sentimental.
Recall that, Foremost Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, Tuesday wrote another letter to the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), demanding a thorough investigation into the alleged anti-party activities of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over the political crisis rocking Rivers State.
Clark, a former minister of information in the defunct First Republic, advised in his third letter to the PDP that if found guilty, Wike should be expelled from the party.
He warned that the PDP was on the verge of extinction if the FCT minister remains in the party despite his anti-party activities .
But speaking at the party headquarters on Wednesday, Damagum said, “I want to use this opportunity also to address a letter from our elder statesman (Clark) that has been brought to my attention. I don’t intend to speak much on it.
“I will borrow Olisa Metu’s remarks from 2015 when Edwin Clark left the party. There’s no doubt that he is an elder statesman. But I thought that when you reach that age, God has given you the opportunity and wisdom to be a father to all, not to engage in public arguments.
“He has all it takes to do the needful, not by taking a sentimental approach to the situation. I was not raised to be disrespectful to elders, so I don’t intend to dwell on this further.”
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