Prominent Ijaw leader and First Republic Minister of
Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has thrown his weight behind the current moves
by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo to produce Nigeria’s next President in 2023.
Clark stated this on Sunday when he received in the
audience, the leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and some South-East leaders led
by the President General, Professor George Obiozor, at his Asokoro, Abuja
residence.
Going down memory lane, Clark told his guests that the First
Nigerian President, the Late Nnamdi Azikiwe, worked with the people of the
South-Southl., to carve out the Mid-West as an independent region in the
defunct First Republic.
He pledged to mobilise his people to reciprocate Azikiwe’s
gesture by working with the South-East leaders to produce an Igbo presidency in
2023.
Clark said, “I don’t belong to any political party, but I
speak my mind. The man who brought Politics into Nigeria was late Dr. Nnamdi
Azikiwe, I knew him when I was I was 20 years when he visited Warri, we trekked
12 miles to come and see him.
“Some of the problems we are having today in Delta was as a
result of the support from Azikiwe and without that, we would not have got
Mid-West region that later became Bendel State and now Edo and Delta states. We
are together, we are one.
“We are supporting the South East region. Anybody from the
Mid West, anybody from Oshimili South and North, Aniocha South and North, Ika,
Agbor or Ukwani, if you say I am ready to be the President of Nigeria because I
am an Igbo, that is punishable because when you do something that people don’t
like, it abominable.
“I have said it, all the Igbo in Anioma, Rivers, in Delta,
where ever they are, this is the time for Igbo, South-East President.
“We have the same problem, when we went to the 2014 National
Conference, we said that the South East has five states, they should be given
additional states so that everyone will have some states like in other zones if
that will stablise Nigeria.
“We want the President coming after Buhari to come from the
South-East, we are together.
“Let me advise, if you must fight a war or fight for
anything at all, we must put our house in order. What do we do with other
voices that are not in tandem with our voices? We must find a way to see what
can be done, they have their own point, but at the same time, they should also
listen to us.”
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