Elder Statesman and a former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to sack former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the party.

Clark, who spoke with journalists at his residence in Abuja on Friday, accused the former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party of working with the opposition against President Goodluck Jonathan.

He said it was wrong for Obasanjo to be working for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), which he said had shown with his (Obasanjo’s) criticism of the President.

He alleged that Obasanjo was defending Buhari over the N25bn unaccounted for at the Petroleum Trust Fund headed by Buhari because Obasanjo wanted Jonathan to lose the election.

According to him, “Obasanjo is defending him because he wants APC to win. How much corruption have you found in Jonathan that you are calling him corrupt?”

Clark observed that Muslims and Christians must live together in the country to hasten its development.

He said, “What is wrong with PDP? That man (Obasanjo) should not be allowed to be in the party. You beg him all the time, he has made up his mind. He gathered APC women to abuse President Jonathan.

“If a man you dissolved his committee (PTF) and he could not account for N25bn and you are now saying that man is not corrupt. Buhari and Obasanjo are the same. They are in a marriage of convenience just to remove Jonathan.

“Because Obasanjo is corrupt, he doesn’t know what the definition of corruption is. There is big trouble in this country when corrupt people call others corrupt.”

Clark said he has no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission as he alleged that the chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega was biased against the return of President Jonathan to office.

“I have lost confidence in INEC. How can a university professor be so biased and does not want Jonathan to come back? It is so disgraceful that he has allowed ethnicity and religion to take control of him,” Clark alleged.

He also observed that the violence-free accord signed by presidential candidates including President Jonathan, Buhari and 12 others will not work because Buhari was not likely to keep to the terms of the agreement.

He said he was happy that President Jonathan made himself available to initial the accord.

According to the South-South leader, Buhari cannot be trusted to keep to the agreement in view of his alleged antecedent including his refusal, when invited, to appear before the defunct Oputa Panel set up to advance the course of peace in the country.

Clark, who said the accord did not mean anything to him, said he would however be glad if it could engender the necessary peace before, during and after the elections.

He noted that the accord was not necessary, blaming its existence on what he said was the desperation of some people who he said believed that power belongs to them.

From: http://www.punchng.com/news/expel-obasanjo-now-clark-tells-pdp/