A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Robert Clarke, has tackled Arise News TV presenters, Ayo Mairo-Ese and Oseni Rufai, slamming their TV chairman, Nduka Obaigbena, as a politician.
Pa Clarke made this statement during an interview on the TV program on Tuesday.
According to him, TV stations are not objective in their reportage, of which, Arise TV is not exempted, as they are all tied to politicians who use them to serve selfish purposes.
He particularly emphasized that Obaigbena is a politician by choice, while he (Pa Clarke) is a pseudo-politician.
Obaigbena CON, Duke of Owa Kingdom, is the founding Chairman and editor-in-chief of the THISDAY Media Group and ARISE News Channel.
Responding to a question on how to salvage states from political crisis, especially, in Rivers State, he said, “Why not you politicians, you call yourselves… You are all tied to the apron of politicians. The politicians own your radios…
“You are all tied, the owner of your Arise (referring to Obaigbena), is he, not a politician?
“When I was in NRC, I was the sole counsel to the party and Tom Ikimi, and he was one of the people who have aged also with me and to Tom Ikimi, they are all politicians.
“I vie into politics partially, they vie into politics willfully. I stayed with my lawyer practice and today I’m happy, I am what I am in my law practice.
“All these people, all of them, Obaigbena and others, they are all politicians. He’s my good brother and my good son, so don’t tell me he’s not a politician and he cannot say that to me.”
Premium Politics stumbled upon an August 2022 video of Obaigbena who in the company of some politicians at a funeral engaged in a political banter against the former Governor of Rivers State and a former Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike.
Wike, alongside, former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, battled for the presidential ticket of the PDP before the former stepped down for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who ended up as the PDP flagbearer in the 2023 presidential election.
however, in the video that surfaced online about a year ago, Obaigbena was seen ridiculing Wike while in the company of Tambuwal.
He was seen saying, “Governor of Sokoto State, Tambuwal, Chairman of PDP’s Governors Forum, Tambuwal, presidential candidate, Tambuwal, Wike lule, Tambuwal, Wike lule, Tambuwal.”
“Wike lule” is a coinage that means Wike lost ‘woefully’.
Watch the video below:
