Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, has
stated that former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, should have
allowed the Igbo to secede at the outset of the civil war in 1966.
Clark said this during an interview on Arise TV, where he
condemned the unfair treatment handed to the South-East by concentrating power
in the northern region.
He stressed the need for the region to be treated with a
sense of belonging and called for political parties, especially the All
Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, to zone their
presidential tickets to a candidate from the South-East.
“My idea of zoning the Presidency to the South-East is well-known. No Nigerian will like to live in a country where certain people believe that they have the only right to lead. The APC believes the 12 million votes by President Muhammadu Buhari might be eroded if it is zoned to the South. The PDP is also considering zoning to the North. This is unfair.
“Nigeria stood on three legs, and it has never been steady
since one of the legs was destroyed during the Civil War. I unpacked all these
facts in my forthcoming memoir ‘Brutally Frank’,” Clark stated.
He added that there was no moral justification for keeping
people who are not being treated fairly, stressing that the region must be
treated with a sense of belonging.
Clark noted that it was unacceptable for a region to have a
domineering spirit because of its population adding that those opposed to a
South-East presidency in 2023 were ready to see the end of Nigeria.
“Gowon should have allowed the Igbos to go if they are to be
treated as second class citizens. If zoning which will heal the wounds is not
done, there will be no Nigeria. Nobody will remain in this country as a second
class citizen.
“The North believes their population can be used to oppress
other Nigerians. This is not acceptable. The era of that has gone. There are
many good Northerners but the Fulani-oriented ones want to dominate
everywhere.”
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