Elder statesman and former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark
yesterday shot a verbal missile at Kano State Governor and All
Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Alhaji Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso saying he was intellectually ill equipped to preside over the
affairs of the country.
Besides, Clark who described Kwankwaso as a religious and ethnic bigot accused him of fanning the embers of discord and a centrifugal force tending to divide the North and the South by his actions and utterances.
In an eight-page open letter to Governor Kwankwaso, the octogenarian accused him of using derogatory statements against his person in an interview he granted to a national newspaper (not The Sun) where he was quoted to have said, “Ijaw National Leader Chief Edwin Clark has grown senile.”
Also in the said interview, Kwankwaso was also reported to have said, “Clark’s conscious effort to ostracise and severe the age long political relationship between the North and South-South was a product of tired brain on reverse gear.”
But in his letter, Chief Clark said Kwankwaso’s statement only portrayed him as “lacking in home training, improper parenting, and lack of respect for elders.”
“At this stage of development, Nigerians do not need a religious and ethnic bigot like Musa Kwankwaso as President. You are very corrupt, a hypocrite, and a bully to mask your numerous inadequacies. Development in Kano has stagnated again since you assumed leadership of the State. The people are so tired of you; they cannot wait to see you go. Go you will, and totally into political oblivion. I assure you must be prosecuted for the various crimes of looting the people’s commonwealth. You are a threat to the peaceful existence of the common man; therefore, the best place for you is jail.”
According to him, “the EFCC has commenced criminal investigations into your looting frenzy, and that of your appointed collaborators, members of the Interim Management Officers (IMOS) of the 44 local government councils in the state, for conspiracy, breach of trust and illegal diversion of N255 billion federal allocation to the 44 Local Government Councils between June 2011 and April, 2014, vide a petition dated June 11th, 2014 duly signed by Mustapha Danjuma, legal counsel to the aggrieved indigenes and representatives of the 44 council areas.
“Acting on the instruction of Sani Ibrahim Danzbua and other representatives of the 44 local government areas of Kano State, the legal firm of Mustapha Danjuma & Co, located at No. 28 Post Office Road, Kano, has initiated a civil action against you and your collaborators at the Federal High Court, Kano, vide suit No. FHC/KN/C5/124/14, for illegal diversion and conversion of N255 billion Federal Allocations to the 44 Local Government Councils of Kano State, between June 2011 to April, 2014.”
Clark further accused Kwankwaso of converting the Kano Road Traffic Agency (KAROTA) into his personal police to constantly harass the people and extort them.
Your autocracy and despotism carve you out in the mould of a medieval potentate, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
He said further: “Today, I am an old man. I do not need to be doing this, exchanging vitriolic words with you or anybody else, but, rather, praying as I have been doing, for unity, fair play, justice, peace and security of a country in which everyone is equally allowed to exercise his or her full right in any endeavour anywhere he or she resides.
This was exactly what Mr. President did in convoking 492 Nigerians, from all walks of life, to discuss and prepare the basis for a country where no one feels superior, to any other.
Besides, Clark who described Kwankwaso as a religious and ethnic bigot accused him of fanning the embers of discord and a centrifugal force tending to divide the North and the South by his actions and utterances.
In an eight-page open letter to Governor Kwankwaso, the octogenarian accused him of using derogatory statements against his person in an interview he granted to a national newspaper (not The Sun) where he was quoted to have said, “Ijaw National Leader Chief Edwin Clark has grown senile.”
Also in the said interview, Kwankwaso was also reported to have said, “Clark’s conscious effort to ostracise and severe the age long political relationship between the North and South-South was a product of tired brain on reverse gear.”
But in his letter, Chief Clark said Kwankwaso’s statement only portrayed him as “lacking in home training, improper parenting, and lack of respect for elders.”
“At this stage of development, Nigerians do not need a religious and ethnic bigot like Musa Kwankwaso as President. You are very corrupt, a hypocrite, and a bully to mask your numerous inadequacies. Development in Kano has stagnated again since you assumed leadership of the State. The people are so tired of you; they cannot wait to see you go. Go you will, and totally into political oblivion. I assure you must be prosecuted for the various crimes of looting the people’s commonwealth. You are a threat to the peaceful existence of the common man; therefore, the best place for you is jail.”
According to him, “the EFCC has commenced criminal investigations into your looting frenzy, and that of your appointed collaborators, members of the Interim Management Officers (IMOS) of the 44 local government councils in the state, for conspiracy, breach of trust and illegal diversion of N255 billion federal allocation to the 44 Local Government Councils between June 2011 and April, 2014, vide a petition dated June 11th, 2014 duly signed by Mustapha Danjuma, legal counsel to the aggrieved indigenes and representatives of the 44 council areas.
“Acting on the instruction of Sani Ibrahim Danzbua and other representatives of the 44 local government areas of Kano State, the legal firm of Mustapha Danjuma & Co, located at No. 28 Post Office Road, Kano, has initiated a civil action against you and your collaborators at the Federal High Court, Kano, vide suit No. FHC/KN/C5/124/14, for illegal diversion and conversion of N255 billion Federal Allocations to the 44 Local Government Councils of Kano State, between June 2011 to April, 2014.”
Clark further accused Kwankwaso of converting the Kano Road Traffic Agency (KAROTA) into his personal police to constantly harass the people and extort them.
Your autocracy and despotism carve you out in the mould of a medieval potentate, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
He said further: “Today, I am an old man. I do not need to be doing this, exchanging vitriolic words with you or anybody else, but, rather, praying as I have been doing, for unity, fair play, justice, peace and security of a country in which everyone is equally allowed to exercise his or her full right in any endeavour anywhere he or she resides.
This was exactly what Mr. President did in convoking 492 Nigerians, from all walks of life, to discuss and prepare the basis for a country where no one feels superior, to any other.
