FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, wants the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from the party for anti-party activities.
Clark, who said it was obvious Obasanjo is working for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Presidential Candidate Muhammadu Buhari, also dismissed the peace accord signed by the President Goodluck Jonathan, General Muhammadu Buhari and 12 other presidential candidates of the various parties on the general elections.
In the opinion of the former minister who spoke to journalists in Abuja on Friday, The accord won,t work because Buhari won’t respect it.
He spoke shortly after receiving a delegation of the North Central PDP Network led by its Director General, Murtala Zubairu, Middle Belt Minority Youths and many other PDP campaign groups.
According to him, peace accord was unnecessary and not in the interest of Nigerians and Nigeria.
He said that Buhari was not likely to keep to the terms of the agreement against the backdrop that he refused to appear before the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa’s National Reconciliation Panel, to answer questions on his activities as former Military Head of State.
Clark noted that although it was a good thing for President Jonathan to have signed the accord, but insisted vehemently that ‘’Buhari cannot be trusted to keep the agreement.’’
On the perennial criticism of President Jonathan by Obasanjo, Chief Clark advised the leadership of PDP to stop begging the former president to support the party .
He said it was obvious the former President was working with the opposition to bring Jonathan down.
‘’That man (Obasanjo) should not be allowed to be in the party. You beg him all the time; he has made up his mind. He gathered APC women to abuse President Jonathan,’’ he added.
According to him, for Obasanjo to defend Buhari over the N25billion which was allegedly unaccounted for at the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, which he (Buhari) headed showed that he was working for Jonathan to lose the election.
“Obasanjo is defending him because he wants APC to win. A man you dissolved his committee, PTF, could not account for N25billion and you are now saying that the man is not corrupt… Buhari and Obasanjo are the same. They are in a marriage of convenience just to remove Jonathan. How much corruption have you found in Jonathan that you are calling him corrupt?” he added.
He said the irony in the country was that those who were corrupt were also calling others corrupt, probably because ‘’they don’t know what the definition of corruption is. That is the big trouble in this country….’’
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