Expel Obasanjo from PDP – Clark

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South
leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday asked the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, to expel the former President, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo from the party.
Clark also pooh-poohed 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, saying that it would not not work.
He further said that the peace accord was unnecessary and not in
the interest of Nigerians and Nigeria, adding 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.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen at his Asokoro residence
in Abuja, 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, the
Elder Statesman noted that although it was a good thing for
President Jonathan to have signed the accord, ‘’Buhari cannot be
trusted to keep the agreement.’’
Also speaking on the constant criticism of President Jonathan by
Obasanjo, Chief Clark advised the leadership of PDP to stop
begging the former president to support the party as according to
him, 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.
According to him, 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….’’