Clark orders Wike to give Fubara some space

Give advice Clark orders Wike to give Fubara some space. Sekibo

The Ijaw People’s Congress leader, Senator George Sekibo, has been urged by Ijaw Nation leader and elder statesman

Chief Edwin Clark to counsel the recently retired Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, to grant peace to his successor, Siminalayi Fubara.

Clark disputed Sekibo’s assertion that Wike had benefited the Ijaw people much by backing Fubara to be elected governor of Rivers.

Leading a delegation of the Ijaw People’s Congress to a meeting on Friday at the Ijaw House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,

with the Ijaw National Congress and Ijaw Youth Council led by Prof. Benjamin Okaba, Sekibo refuted the myth that Wike detested Ijaw people.

Additionally, he mentioned that Ijaws were a minority in the state.

On the other hand, Clark said in a letter to Sekibo on Sunday that the Ijaw had made sacrifices in order for Rivers State to continue to exist, which Wike personally benefited from.

According to Clark, during Wike’s eight years as governor of Rivers, the Ijaw never demanded that he submit to them and instead encouraged his political career.

Clark said that Wike embodied the godfather-godson syndrome and called the Wike-Fubara dispute sad and unsettling.

“Therefore, after hearing your account of the unbelievable degree to which Wike has aided the Ijaw people, I am at a loss,”

he declared. Conversely, and this may surprise you, Wike has benefited much from the kindness of the Ijaw people. His political career has been enhanced by the Ijaws’ assistance.

His dispute with Siminalayi Fubara, whom he had chosen above all of our other sons and daughters, is therefore very regrettable and occasionally unsettling.

The Ijaws and other groups are not at odds with one another. No, because the real issue in this dispute is what is appropriate and moral. He was the perfect example of the godfather-godson phenomenon.

He is hardly the only prominent political figure to subsequently enter the centre. Many of us got to the centre and were influential

political figures in our states, but we avoided playing stifling godfather positions as much as possible.

Wike’s reputation had taken a hit, therefore he pleaded with Sekibo and his colleagues to counsel him to concentrate on his duties as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

“Now that you and your colleagues are close friends with Wike and will stop at nothing to restore his reputation—

which is severely damaged at this point—it is time to counsel him to go to work in Abuja and let the governor handle his business.

You are an Ijaw man from Ogu, my darling son. Did the Ogu people rule over Barr? Nyesom Wike as a result of their battle to elect him governor?

You and your friends are offering up the Ijaw soul as a sacrifice on the altar of political favouritism. Rethink that! stated Clark.