Edwin Clark blames Amaechi, Kyari,Sylva for the botched PANDEF meeting

macfranc007 November 13, 2017 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 Adeola Opeyemi

- Elder state man, Edwin Clark has accused Chibuike Amaechi, Abba Kyari and Governor Timipre Sylva of being responsible for the botched PANDEF meeting

- Clark also stated that he would use everything within the law to find out why the Federal Government decided to stop the meeting

Former federal Commissioner for Education, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has alleged that Transport Minister, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, former Bayelsa State governor, Timipre Sylva, and Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, sabotaged the Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF) in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, last month, the Guardian reports.

Clark also stated that he would use everything within the law to find out why the Federal Government decided to stop the meeting, claiming that neither the Minister of Interior, General Abdurahman Dambazzau (rtd), nor Vice President Yemi Osinbajo bother to give a reason for doing so.

Clark said before the botched meeting, another chieftain of the group, Anabs Sara-Igbe informed him that an indigene of the area that is involved in oil company operations had approached him and indicated interest came to pay for Atlantic Hall, venue of the General Assembly at Hotel Presidential, and was also prepared to give the delegates lunch.

“These were the things that young man promised. We did not go to another oil company to solicit for help. It was PANDEF that asked NDDC for assistance in the area of accommodation during the meeting. As a result of this request, NDDC gave us N15m on the day we were to hold the meeting. They brought the N15m to pay for accommodation in various hotels in Port Harcourt. This money I did not see or touch. By the way, what is N15m to someone like me?

“Not only that, I was the one that wrote a personal letter to Governor Nyesom Wike to host us. The governor then called to inform me that he was going to America to pick up an award, and from there he would be going to Chatham House in London to give a lecture, and as such, he was not going to be available, so we should postpone the meeting. I told him it was too late to cancel the meeting, as delegates were beginning to arrive the venue of the meeting in Port Harcourt."

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com earlier reported that there was a clash between security aides of Governor Nyesom Wike and minister, Rotimi Amaechi.

Amaechi explained how the clash between him and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state occurred in Port Harcourt on Saturday, November 11.

Amaechi, the immediate past governor of Rivers, said the governor’s security aides tried to shoot him and vandalized his car.

In a statement by his media office and obtained by NAIJ.com, the minister accused Wike of showing a blatant raw power.

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