Impeachment: Chief Edwin Clark Warns Wike To Stir Clear Of Gov Fubara

Elder statesman and National Leader of the South-South and Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin K. Clark, has warned Nyesom Wike, Minister of the FCT not to push for the impeachment of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.

This is coming after 24 members of the State House of Assembly in the State on Monday served impeachment notice on the governor.

The members had converged in a makeshift hall to serve the impeachment notice after the Assembly Complex was burnt on Sunday night.

Before the impeachment notice could be served on the governor, the 24 House members loyal to Wike had impeached the House Majority Leader, Edison Ehie, said to be loyal to the governor.

But a faction of eight members loyal to the governor quickly installed Ehie, whose first task was to suspend the Chief Judge of the State, Simeon Amadi who is also alleged to be loyal to Wike.

But in a strongly worded statement he personally signed on Monday, Clark berated Wike for orchestrating the governor’s impeachment bid.

“I have been greatly disturbed by the reported developments in Rivers State in the last 24 hours. I have been reliably informed that there is a plot to unlawfully remove the Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Siminalayi Fubara, who has spent only about 5 months in office,” the statement read in part.

Clark further said, “I understand the sad episode is being orchestrated by the immediate past Governor of Rivers State and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike.

“And that the intention is to remove the Governor, force his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu to resign, and install the Speaker of the House of Assembly, another Ikwerre person as the governor of the State.