Elder statesman and the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, News About Nigeria reports.
Clark noted that the call for Wike’s arrest is following his statement at a congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers state in August, that he would “put fire” in the states of governors siding with his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Reacting to Wike’s threat in an open letter addressed to Egbetokun which is titled ‘Arrest Wike Now With a Warrant of Arrest’, the elder statesman said Wike “has gone overboard in his macabre dance.”
He further stated that if #EndBadGovernance protesters could be arrested and charged to court for treason, Wike shouldn’t be different as he is not above the law.
He said, “As we lawyers say, nobody is above the law and the law must take its course. If you could in the past arrest Omoyele Sowore for similar or less implicating threats against public peace and public officials, if you are right now leading prosecution in law courts against people who participated in ‘End Bad Governance’ protest, what are you waiting to act in this case of Wike? My dear IG, at well over 97 years of age, and having held various positions in government including being a Minister over 50 years ago, I am shocked that a public officer who is an appointee of a serving President can descend to this level.
“When we worked under Gen. Yakubu Gowon, GCFR, in the Federal Executive Council, the code of conduct which we were expected to keep especially as it pertained to being instruments of public order was at the highest level. There is nothing that Wike has not done in his attempt to sabotage the government of Siminalayi Fubara and install the former speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, his brother, as Governor. But all have failed.”
