Chief Edwin Clark, has called on the leadership of
the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, to sack former President Olusegun Obasanjo
from the party.
The Elder stateman, who spoke with journalists at his
residence in Abuja on Friday, accused the former Chairman of the
party’s Board of Trustees of mingling and working with the opposition against
President Goodluck Jonathan. Describing it as wrong for the ex-president to be
working for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
He alleged that Obasanjo was defending
Buhari over the N25bn allegedly unaccounted for by the Petroleum Trust
Fund, which was headed by Buhari during the military government of the
late Gen. Sanni Abacha.
Clark said Obasanjo wants Jonathan to lose the presidential election slated for February 2015.
He said, “Obasanjo is defending him
(Buhari) because he wants APC to win. How much corruption have you found
in Jonathan that you are calling him corrupt?”
The national Ijaw leader opined that Christians and Muslims must live together in the country to hasten its development.
He said, “What is wrong with PDP? That man (Obasanjo) should not be allowed to be in the party. You beg him all the time, (but) he has made up his mind. He gathered APC women to abuse President Jonathan.
“If you’re saying that a man you
dissolved his committee (PTF) and could not account for N25bn is not
corrupt, (then) Buhari and Obasanjo are the same. They are in a marriage
of convenience just to remove Jonathan (from office).
“Because Obasanjo is corrupt, he doesn’t
know what the definition of corruption is. There is big trouble in this
country when corrupt people call others corrupt.”
Clark said he had no confidence in the
Independent National Electoral Commission, alleging that its Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega, was biased against the return of President Jonathan
to office.
“I have lost confidence in INEC. How can
a university professor be so biased and not want Jonathan to return for
second term? It is so disgraceful that he has allowed ethnicity and
religion to take control of him,” Clark said.
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