ABUJA—FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and Elder
statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, some South-South elders and stakeholders have
urged the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to expel Governor
Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State if he did not resign honourably from the
party.
Calling on Amaechi to resign from the PDP, they said his
resignation would enable him concentrate on his war of acrimony against the
leadership of the PDP, adding that if failed to resign as a member of the
party, the national leadership of the PDP should expel him from the party to
restore sanity to the PDP as well as serve as deterrent to other ‘’renegade
members.’’ Clark and the South-South elders made the call after assessing the
state of the nation particularly with regard to the lingering crisis in Rivers
States.
The elders also took a swipe at the some of the Northern
governors who visited governor Ameachi as well as the Nobel Laureate, Professor
Wole Soyinka saying: ‘’We find it difficult to understand why Nigerians,
including those acclaimed to be academics of international repute and serving
governors have decided to fan the embers of disrespect, arrogance, and absolute
insolence of Governor Chibuike Amaechi.
‘’We cannot comprehend the basis of the meddlesomeness of
particularly some Northern Governors and busy body professors who have decided
to carry the banner of the Rivers State internal crisis on their heads. When
Gov. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, uncouth, ill-mannered, reminiscent of chequered
upbringing, derogatorily undermines President Goodluck Jonathan, and unruly
labels him as an “authoritarian dictator” it is seen by these disgruntled
apologists to be within the frame of normal political discourse.
“But when the First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan makes an
innocuous comment on the Rivers State crisis, these professors use the most
virulent despicable grammar in the lexicon of Nobel laureates to qualify her.
It is fictile, untraditional and unethical for a man to publicly insult another
man’s wife as Africans. It is therefore confounding to see a supposed role
model and responsible “husband” in the mould of our obtrusive professor to
throw decency in the winds to publicly denigrate and disparage the First Lady,
Dame Patience Jonathan. We doubt if there is a woman of honour in his house.”
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