PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu
A former Federal Commissioner of
Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has accused the National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, of misinforming
President Goodluck Jonathan on issues relating to the party.
Clark was particularly unhappy with
Mu’azu, who he alleged of imposing a former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, as the PDP governorship
candidate in Adamawa State.
He said Mu’azu misinformed the President on the alleged popularity of the former chairman of the anti-graft commission.
Speaking while hosting members of the
Northern Youth Vanguard at his residence in Abuja on Saturday, the Ijaw
leader said that he was also surprised when Ribadu visited him with a
owner of a television and radio stations from the South-South (names
withheld), asking for his (Clark’s) support.
He said, “Mu’azu and some people are
misleading the President in the PDP. He imposed Ribadu on the people of
Adamawa, saying he’s popular.
“Two weeks ago, Ribadu came here with
some people (names withheld) asking for my support. This is the same
Ribadu that was arresting people indiscriminately when he was the
chairman of the EFCC without following the due process. He was given a
list with which to work with.
“There is no justice. Those who parade
themselves on newspapers are anti-PDP. Majority of them are working
against the party and the President.”
Clark called on youths in the country to
deny old men the opportunity to rule the country by voting for young and
educated candidates in next month’s general elections.
He particularly urged them not to vote
for 73-year-old presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who he said was “close to his
departure lounge.”
He said, “My sons and my daughters, I
have gone to this very length to show you that the man called Buhari,
you do not know him. You are knowing him at the age of 73. Why should
they be supporting him when he wants to sleep?
“Can the man stand firmly? I will be surprised that those who are catapulting him will not say, ‘ah, is this another game?
“Anyone of us can go any time but Nigeria requires young men, young governors whose hands are not soiled.
“This is your country, we are building it
for you. If you want to spoil it, spoil it. But for people like us who
are waiting for boarding pass to rule the country for you, you will be
in trouble.”
Clark recalled that as a member of the
recently-concluded National Conference, he had observed that those of
them from 70 years and above, “were at the departure lounge waiting for
boarding pass. But when I got there, they couldn’t give me my boarding
pass.
“God said, ‘you have not finished your
job, you are one of those who added to the damage in this country. Go
and repair it.’ So, they refused me boarding pass.”
He advised the youths to “Guard jealously
your age. This is your time. Don’t allow a 73-year-old man who should
be getting his boarding pass to leave, to rule you.”
The former Federal Commissioner for
Information also knocked some persons who he described as “fish out of
the water if they are not ruling.”
On insecurity, Clark observed that people
deliberately engineered the Boko Haram crisis to discredit President
Goodluck Jonathan and later use it to campaign against him.
Speaking earlier, the leader of Northern
Youth Vanguard, Mr. Hameed Olanipekun, had told Clark that they
supported the continuity of President Jonathan in office, saying that
they would not allow themselves to be deceived.
While noting several programmes initiated
by the administration such as YouWIN that were youth-friendly, the
group said it had mapped out a strategy for each member of the vanguard
to convince 50 persons to vote for Jonathan at next month’s presidential
election.
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