{"id":42968,"date":"2015-10-16T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=42968"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T11:59:57","slug":"buhari-beware-of-pa-edwin-clark-says-dr-abati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buhari-beware-of-pa-edwin-clark-says-dr-abati\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Pa Edwin Clark, Dr Abati tells Buhari  \u00a0  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to be careful of how he relates with \u00a0Pa Edwin Clark because he comes across as someone whose only interest is what he benefits.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2365\" class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ex presidential spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, who gave this counsel, expressed \u00a0shock at Clark\u2019s recent swipe at Goodluck Jonathan he defended with his all adding \u201c\u201cClark is a typical example of people that leaders in power should not have around them<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2367\" class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2366\">\u00a0\u201cHe was so combative he was once quoted as suggesting that Nigeria could have problems if Jonathan was not allowed to return to office.\u201d Abati said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2369\" class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2370\">He however pointed out \u201cI am not necessarily saying that the Ijaw leader should have remained loyal to and defend Goodluck Jonathan because they are both Ijaws; patriotism definitely could be stronger than ethnic affinities. Nonetheless, that E. K. Clark tale about leaving politics and becoming a statesman is nothing but sheer crap.\u00a0 If Jonathan had returned to office, he would still be a card-carrying member of the PDP and the \u2018father of the president\u2019 and we would still have been hearing that famous phrase, \u2018my son\u2019. Chief E. K. Clark, five months after, has practically told the world that President Buhari is better than \u2018his own son\u2019. It is the worst form of humiliation that President Jonathan has received since he left office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Abati \u201d\u00a0\u201cEvery president must beware of those persons who come around calling them \u2018Daddy\u2019, \u2018Uncle\u2019, \u2018na my brother dey there\u2019, \u2018my son\u2019, \u2018our in-law&#8217;: emotional blackmailers relying on old connections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe says Jonathan was a weak President. At what point did he come to that realisation? Yet, throughout the five years, he spoke loudly against anyone who opposed the president,\u201d Abati argued<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a programme to announce his decision to quit partisan politics, Clark had said Jonathan lacked the will to fight corruption. \u201cJonathan didn\u2019t have the political will to fight corruption\u201d he had said .<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Abati said in an article titled \u2018Clark the Father, Jonathan, the son\u2019. \u201cHe was so combative he was once quoted as suggesting that Nigeria could have problems if Jonathan was not allowed to return to office. Today, he is the one helping President Jonathan\u2019s successor to quench the fires. \u201cHe always openly said President Jonathan is \u2018his son\u2019. Today, he is not just turning against his own son, he is telling the world his son as president lacked the political will to fight corruption. He has also accused his son of being too much of a gentleman. \u201cReally? Gentlemanliness would be considered honourable in refined circles.\u00a0 Is Pa E.K. Clark recommending something else in order to prove that he is no longer a politician but a statesman as he says?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201d As someone who was a member of the Jonathan administration, and who interacted often with the old man, I can only say that I am shocked. \u201cThis is the equivalent of the old man deleting President Jonathan\u2019s phone number and ensuring that calls from his phone no longer ring at the Jonathan end. During the Jonathan years, Chief E. K. Clark was arguably the most vocal Ijaw leader defending the government. \u201cHe called the President \u2018my son\u2019, and both father and son remained in constant touch. \u201c<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2377\" class=\"yiv8683135394MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444996408968_2378\">\u201cThere is something about having the president\u2019s ears in a presidential system, elevated to the level of a fetish in the clientilist Nigerian political system. \u201cPersons in the corridors of power who have the president\u2019s ear \u2013 be they cook, valet, in-laws, wife, cousin, former school mates, priests, or whatever, enjoy special privileges. They have access to the president and they can whisper into his ears. That\u2019s all they have as power: the power to whisper and run a whispering campaign that can translate into opportunities or losses for those outside that informal power loop around every presidency, that tends to be really influential. \u201cEvery president must beware of those persons who come around calling them \u2018Daddy\u2019, \u2018Uncle\u2019, \u2018na my brother dey there\u2019, \u2018my son\u2019, \u2018our in-law&#8217;: emotional blackmailers relying on old connections\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to be careful of how he relates with \u00a0Pa Edwin Clark because he comes across as someone whose only interest is what he benefits.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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