Prominent Ijaw leader and convener of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on security operatives to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra [IPOB], Nnamdi Kanu.
Chief Clark said this while reacting to Nnamdi Kanu’s threat to disrupt the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election slated for November 18, 2017.
Speaking to Vanguard, Clark said:
“There is nowhere that youths will take over the administration of a place and it is very irresponsible for Kanu to say there will be no election in Anambra State in November.
“He should be arrested and detained.
“There is a limit to their agitation and I am happy that the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo has condemned them.”
Clark, while admitting that the Igbos are being marginalised by the current administration, pointed out that before the All Progressives Congress [APC]’s administration, the Igbos have enjoyed and served in key positions in Nigeria.
He said: “I agree that President Buhari’s government has marginalized them.
“Okay. What of former President Jonathan’s government?
“I think the Igbo played a leading role in former President Jonathan’s government; they had every chance, every opportunity to develop their area. But some of them were selfish.
“The secretary to the government was an Igbo man.
“At a time, the Chief of Army Staff was an Igbo man; the Igbo occupied very important positions in former President Jonathan’s government, so they couldn’t have said they were marginalized.
“Rather it was the Yoruba who were crying that they were being marginalized.
“And towards the end of Jonathan’s government, he decided to give them so many posts because we all belong to one country called Nigeria.
Speaking about the current secession agitation by pro-Biafra groups, he stated:
“I think Nigeria is one country, we cannot break up. My advice to those beating the drum of secession is to take it easy.”
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