No Igbo-Speaking Person From Delta And Rivers State Should Contest - Edwin Clark

 

AHEAD of 2023 general elections, former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor should come from the South East geo-political zone of the country. Clark has however described as abominable and condemnable if any Igbo speaking person from Delta and Rivers States aspires for the exalted position because such a person speaks Igbo, adding that no person from Oshimili South and North, Aniocha, Agbor or Ukwani should come out for presidency, but they should all join the South East to achieve it come 2023.

Speaking Sunday at his Asokoro residence, Abuja when he received the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and some South East leaders led by the President General, Professor George Obiazor, the Elderstateman who is the National Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF said that the time has come for the South East region to produce the President of Nigeria and 2023 is the time.

The Ijaw chief who called for synergy, sacrifice some of the humans, said that the battle might not be smooth, but the area should attain out to different geo- Political Zones of the u . S . With a view to woo and interact them, just as he warned that the South East region have to placed its house in order, work in unison and as one indivisible quarter.

Clark said, “the era we have reached now could be that we've got agreed to work together, how will we go on, how will we flow on? I think this is the degree we have reached.

” I don’t belong to any political birthday party, but I communicate my thoughts. The guy who introduced politics into Nigeria turned into overdue Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, I knew him when I changed into two decades when he visited Warri, we trekked 12 miles to peer him. Some of the issues we are having nowadays in Delta turned into because of the aid for Azikiwe and without that, we would not are becoming Midwest area that later became Bendel State and now Edo and Delta States. We are together, we are one.

“We are assisting the South East location. Anybody from Midwest, Oshimili South and North, Aniocha South and North, Ika, Agbor or Ukwani, in case you say I am equipped to be the President of Nigeria due to the fact I communicate Igbo, this is punishable due to the fact while you do some thing that human beings don’t like, it abominable.

” I have said it, all the Igbos in Anioma, Rivers, in Delta, in which ever they're, that is the time for Igbo, South East President. We have the identical hassle, whilst we went to the 2014 National Conference, we said that the South East has five states, they ought to receive additional states so that everyone can have equal states like in other zones if to be able to solid Nigeria, create them.

“We need the President coming after Buhari to come from the South East, we're collectively.

” Let me suggest, in case you must combat a conflict or fight for some thing in any respect, we ought to placed our house in order. What do we do with different voices that aren't in tandem with our voices? We need to find a manner to peer what can be accomplished, they have got own factor, but at the equal time, they need to also concentrate to us.”

Earlier in his remarks, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Professor George Obiazor who stated that Nigeria as a rustic changed into in severe ache and pains, said that the time has come for the healing of the honor of Man National Healing.

The Ohaneze President General who warned towards the usage of violence and military processes to cope with the issues confronting the us of a said that they're used, the extra factionalised the united states of america could be and the more factionlalised we are, it might then result in a synchronised national crisis and if not checked, could result in inevitable disintegration.

Obiazor who mentioned the time has come for the South East and South-South to shape a stronger synergy, stated that the time when South East people can be used in opposition to South East was over, including that certainly one of them cannot be hated and you show like to the opposite.

According to Obiazor, this isn't always the time for human beings to say that they love the South-South extra than the South East Zone, simply as he careworn that humans may be fooled for a while and not forever, including that what they may be going through today is mild at the give up of the tunnel.

Obiazor who referred to as for synergy most of the human beings of both zones and different components of the country, said, “these days, what we need is to synergise among ourselves, the day we are able to do it, records will trade. We all recognise that we've the identical sort of issues.

“Honestly, you can't hate one people and like the other facet. For individuals who inform us that they may like human beings inside the South-South greater than the South East or they will use one towards the opposite, the time is over. You can fool people for a while, but now not forever. What we're facing today is light on the give up of the tunnel. I don’t recognize who does now not believe in one direction.

“The country wide question is the difficulty that calls for a specific sort of answer and determination. The extra you practice violence and navy techniques to it, the greater the united states is factionalised, the extra the u . S . Is factionalised, the more ethnic armed forces businesses and subsequently leads to what is called synchronised national disaster and the rest is history and inevitable disintegration.

“We need to start doing some thing to deal with the problem. I urge the Federal Government to reconsider the use of force, I need the authorities to conspicuously impress the values of justice, fairness and equity as its proper sense so that Nigeria will face clean ease of unity. It is time for the authorities and the human beings to begin the method of recovery. Nigeria is in pain and pains, it is time for national healing.

The President General of Ohaneze become followed for the duration of the go to through his Majesty, the Obi of Obinugwu, Imo State, Dr Cletus Ikechukwu Ilomuanya; Ohaneze Secrerary General, Chief Okey Emuchay; Senator Ben Obi; Chief Onyema Ugochukwu; Prof. A.B.C. Nwosu; Chief Dubem Onyia; Chief Guy Ikoku; Hon. Goddy Nwazurike, among others.

Also present to enroll in Chief Clark in receiving the Ohaneze leaders have been former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah; former Minister of Police Affairs, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo; Senator Bassey Henshaw; Ambassador Godknows Igali, among others.