Rivers crisis: Call Wike to order, Clark tells Tinubu

A former minister of Information, Edwin Clark, has asked President Bola Tinubu to call Nyesom Wike to order over the political crisis in Rivers State.
There had been speculation that Mr Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, was behind Monday’s impeachment attempt against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Mr Clerk told reporters on Monday in Abuja that the crisis in the Rivers House of Assembly was traceable to Mr Wike who is Mr Fubara’s predecessor, according to a Channels TV report.
He appealed to the minister to give peace a chance in Rivers State. This is the first time a high-profile figure would openly blame Mr Wike for the Rivers crisis.

Governor Fubara, after he was tear-gassed by some police operatives while he walked along a road in Port Harcourt, said he did not know those who were behind the political crisis.
“I am not planning anything against anybody, but I don’t know where all things are coming from,” Mr Fubara told reporters.
Mr Fubara said security in Rivers State had been compromised. “They were shooting at me directly. But it doesn’t matter, somebody will die one day,” he said.
“We are not in a barbaric state where people can do whatever they like; we are in a democracy and the tenets of constitutional democracy must be upheld by all"
“Rivers people have suffered enough political crises, the state should not be allowed to degenerate again into its dark past, and the Niger Delta Region by extension. The consequences would be dire for the stability of the region and the national economy.”
Meanwhile, the police statement on the crisis was mute about the attack on Governor Fubara and the explosion and fire at the Rivers House of Assembly Complex.
Mr Wike is yet to comment on the crisis in the state.