The South East push to takeover the presidency in 2023 has recieved the blessing of Chief Edwin Clark, a renowned South South leader and voice.
Clark, a former national Commissioner at the weekend said the next President coming after Buhari should come from the South East.
He however urged the people to put their house in order if they want to actualise their dream of producing the next president of the country.
He spoke when he received the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and some South East leaders led by the President General, Professor George Obiazor to who paid him a courtesy visit
at his Asokoro residence, Abuja.
Clark said, ” the era we have reached now is that we have agreed to work together. How do we go on, how do we move on? I think that is the stage we have reached.
” 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 twenty years old when he visited Warri, we trecked twelve miles to come and see him.
“We are supporting the South East region. Anybody from from Midwest, 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 Igbos 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 same states like in other zones if that will stable Nigeria, create them.
“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 fighting for any thing 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.”
Earlier in his remarks, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo World wide, Professor George Obiazor said, ” today, what we need is to synegise among ourselves, the day we will do it, history will change. We all know that we have the same kind of problems.
” Honestly, you cannot hate one of us and like the other. For people who tell us that they will like people in the South South more than the South East or they will use one against the other, the time is over. You can fool people for some time, but not forever. What we are facing today is light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t know who does not believe in one course.
” The National question is the issue that requires a different kind of solution and resolution. The more you apply violence and military tactics to it, the more the country is factionlalised, the more the country is factionlalised, the more ethnic militia groups and eventually leads to what is called synchronised national crisis and the rest is history and inevitable disintegration.
” We should start doing something to address the problem. I urge the Federal Government to reconsider the Use of force, I want the Government to conspicuously impress the values of Justice, Equity and fairness as its true sense so that Nigeria will face clear ease of unity. It is time for the government and the people to start the process of healing. Nigeria is in agony and pains, it is time for national healing.
The President General of Ohaneze was accompanied during the visit by 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 join Chief Clark in receiving the Ohaneze leaders were 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.
