Adamawa Guber: Clark accuses Mu’azu of misleading President Jonathan on choice of Ribadu

Adamawa Guber: Clark accuses Mu’azu of misleading President Jonathan on choice of Ribadu

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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.

Speaking while hosting members of the Northern Youth Vanguard at
his residence in Abuja on Saturday, the Ijaw leader said that he 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.

“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,” he said.

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.”

“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 stated.

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.