Elder statesman and former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South, Edwin Clark, has Petitioned 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 residence, Clark asked Egbetokun, to arrest Wike, over his comments, threatening to set fire to the states of Governors of the People’s Democratic Party.
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 added that his comments were a form of treason as it was capable of inciting violence in the country.
Citing several legal provisions, including the Public Officer Protection Act and the Violence Against Persons Protection Act, Clark called for Wike’s immediate arrest and prosecution.
Clark said, “Wike has committed treason, he should be arrested with warrant. Wike believes that the only person he respects is the President. Today, Wike is controlling everything, including the judiciary.
“Wike is already dancing naked in the market place, with one leg in the PDP and one left in the APC. Either he wants a structure to protect the money he has stolen in Rivers State or for something else.
“That’s why I am calling on the IGP to investigate Wike, otherwise Nigeria will be in serious trouble. The youths of the States he threatened to set on fire won’t sit down and watch him do that.”
Clark also criticized Wike’s alleged accumulation of wealth during his time in office as governor of Rivers State, questioning the sources of his wealth and accusing him of using state resources for personal advantages.
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.
