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December 20, 2023 Rivers: Clark Faults Tinubu’s ‘Imposed Settlement’, Threatens Lawsuit

Rivers: Clark Faults Tinubu’s ‘Imposed Settlement’, Threatens Lawsuit

Leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Pa Edwin Clark, has described the truce reached between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike as an “imposed settlement.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the elder statesmen said the communique issued at the end of the reconciliatory meeting was “baffling, appalling and unacceptable” to the people, especially, the Ijaw ethnic nationality.

Clark alleged that from the terms of settlement, President Bola Tinubu sees his role as a mediator to show gratitude to the FCT Minister for ‘delivering’ Rivers State to him during the past Presidential elections.

He said the eight resolutions reached, are the most unconstitutional, and absurd resolutions at settling feuding parties that he has seen saying Fubara was ambushed and intimidated into submission.

He stressed that the president cannot use his powers to override the constitution.

The nonagenarian vowed to go to court to resist what he termed as the oppressive action using all available constitutional and legal means while appealing to the aggrieved youths to remain calm.

Yesterday, President Bola Tinubu had intervened in the political crisis in the state by initiating a truce agreement between Governor Fubara and Wike through the signing of an eight-point resolution.

These include that Fubara and his team would withdraw all the court cases instituted and that the Rivers Assembly would drop all impeachment proceedings against the governor.

Also, the leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly as led by the Martin Amaewhule shall be recognized alongside the 27 members who resigned from the PDP, among others.

 

January 6, 2023 NNPP Presidential Candidate, Kwakwanso, Says It Is Wrong For Elder Statesmen To Endorse Contestants In Election

NNPP Presidential Candidate, Kwakwanso, Says It Is Wrong For Elder Statesmen To Endorse Contestants In Election

Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), believes it is improper for anybody regarded as a statesman to endorse candidates before of Nigeria’s presidential election on February 25.

“I want to advise our leaders, they should stop disgracing themselves. We have so much respect for them. If you say you don’t like me, no problem,” the former Kano State governor said on Wednesday in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

Governor Godwin Obaseki welcomed Kwankwaso at the Government House ahead of the start of his presidential campaign in the state.

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Edwin Clark, Ijaw national leader and coordinator of PANDEF, have both backed Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) standard bearer, in recent days.

The endorsement attracted criticism from the main political parties, with the All Progressives Congress (APC) calling it “worthless,” and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claiming it does not represent Nigerians’ views.

December 30, 2021 Oil Ownership: ACF Backs Obasanjo, PANDEF, INC FUME, Say Constitution Fraudulent

Oil Ownership: ACF Backs Obasanjo, PANDEF, INC FUME, Say Constitution Fraudulent

The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has disagreed with the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, the Ijaw National Congress and some civil rights groups over the ownership of crude oil in the Niger Delta.

The ACF spokesman, EMMANUEL YAWE, in an interview supported the position of former President OLUSEGUN OBASANJO that the crude oil in the Niger Delta belonged to the Federal Government not people in the region.

But PANDEF, the INC and other groups that spoke faulted the former president and supported an elder statesman, Chief EDWIN CLARK, who lambasted OBASANJO over his position on the oil in the Niger Delta.

OBASANJO had at a peace and security parley convened by the Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa a few weeks ago attacked the National Secretary of the INC, EBIPAMOWEI WODU, over the latter’s outburst.

High Chief ANABS SARA-IGBE, speaking on Inspiration FM’s All Out Politics, said OBASANJO has always had disdain for the Niger Delta.

The former spokesman for the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, insisted that oil belonged to the Niger Delta people.

 

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October 15, 2021 Northern Elders Forum Warns PANDEF Over Presidential Election

Northern Elders Forum Warns PANDEF Over Presidential Election

The Northern Elders' Forum has warned the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) against issuing any threat over the 2023 presidential election

The forum said this while reacting to PANDEF's statement that the north should wait till 2031 before producing another president.

 NEF's Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed warned that perhaps PANDEF and other groups have not been listening to the north when it stated that it shall not be threatened or intimidated by any group or region. 

"The truth of the matter is, whatever PANDEF says, no matter what any group says, the fundamental right of every citizen to elect his candidate and the rights of all political parties to choose candidates must be respected. Between this legal provision and the exigencies of managing a plural and diverse nation, politicians should fill the vacuum by doing the serious work."

He advised PANDEF and other organisations to insist on a competent Nigerian who must run an inclusive administration that will integrate everybody into the process.

 

 

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