As stakeholders of the ruling
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) intensify efforts to resolve the crisis rocking
the party, a founding father of the party, Chief Abu King Shuluwa, has urged
President Goodluck Jonathan to tame the duo of Chief Edwin Clark and Asari
Dokubo from making inciting and inflammatory statements.
This came on the heels of a similar
statement yesterday in Makurdi by former Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, who also cautioned that the duo should be called to
order.
Tsav said: “Our soldiers fought to
keep Nigeria as one, during which many lost their lives, where was Asari
Dokubo? He cannot and should never destroy a house which he did not partake in
building.
“Asari Dokubo has no monopoly of
violence, unfortunately Nigeria is a country where the enforcement of law is
discriminatory in favour of government and party thugs; that is why anyone on
the payroll of government can threaten to unleash bloodbath in the country and
security agencies are doing nothing about such threats.”
“I urge President Goodluck Jonathan
and Chief Edwin Clark for whom Asari Dokubo is working to tame him and call him
to order; while I call on former Presidents Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun
Obasanjo and other eminent Nigerians not to withdraw from the ongoing peace
talks.”
Meanwhile, PDP stalwart, Chief
Shuluwa, in a similar statement, wondered why Asari Dokubo, an ex- militant who
is supposed to remain in the creek, should be opening his mouth wide to insult
the intelligence of Nigerians and declaring Alhaji Atiku Abubakar a
persona-non-grata in the country that belonged to all Nigerians.
“Unfortunately, even Clark has
turned the issue of Presidency to an Ijaw fight. Where were they in 2011 when
Nigerians trooped out in their numbers to vote in a Nigerian President, not an
Ijaw President?”
“These people’s utterances are
becoming unwarranted. Is this the first time the minority in Nigeria is
producing the President of the country, he asked.
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