Rivers crisis: Tinubu's settlement one-sided, unaacceptable, says Clark

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Ijaw leader Edwin Clark has faulted the Monday eight-point resolution on the political crisis in Rivers State superintended by President Bola Tinubu, saying it was one-sided and unacceptable.

President Bola Tinubu and other stakeholders had met on Monday with embattled Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, and his quarrelling immediate predecessor, Nyesom Wike, over the political crisis in the state.

The fallout of the meeting was the eight-point solution to end the face-off between the two political gladiators.

The highlight of the resolution was that all matters instituted in the courts by the state governor against Wike and his team “shall be withdrawn immediately.”

The resolution also mandated the state lawmakers loyal to Wike to halt all impeachment moves against Fubara.

However, Chief Clark, a Ijaw leader and elder statesman, told journalists on Tuesday, that the resolutions were unduely favourable to the Wike faction in the crisis.

He explained that the resolution aimed to hand over the political leadership of the state back to Wike, Tinubu’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

He said looking at the terms of agreement, the it was obvious that Tinubu used his role as a mediator to show gratitude to the FCT minister for “delivering” Rivers State to him during the last presidential elections.

According to Clark, “We will resist any attempt, subtle, subterranean, covert, overt, to make an elected Ijaw son, Siminialayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, a servant, a stooge to Nyesom Wike, who had boasted that any attempt by the governor to touch his so-called ‘Wike’s structure’ with the connivance and support of President Bola Tinubu, will be resisted by us.

“Like I said, we will go to court to resist this oppressive action using all available constitutional and legal means. It is on this note that I wish to appeal to the youths who are aggrieved to remain calm, as we will use legal means to dethrone this hydra-headed monster, called oppression.”