The National Leader of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) Chief Edwin Clark has decried the lack of fairness and the continued marginalisation of members of the Igbo nation in the leadership of Nigeria, asserting that if the Igbo are not allowed to rule the country in 2023, there will be no Nigeria afterwards.
Speaking on an Arise TV programme, which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, Chief Clark lamented that the unity of Nigeria is being toyed with, especially if the people of Igbo nation are being left out in the political future of Nigeria.
He also lamented the fact that Boko Haram insurgents who took arms against the country are captured and retrained and reintegrated into the main stream of Nigerian politics, adding that it amount to great injustice if after the civil war the Igbos have not been allowed to rule Nigeria.
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He said: ‘Any Southern Governor, any southern former governor who agrees to be a Vice to a northerner in this election is not a true northerner and God will deal with him.’
Clark disclosed that several negotiations have been entered into by Alhaji Ango Abdullahi the leader of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), but each time the issue of restructuring is mention, he will back out., adding that ‘nobody will take us for a ride, Nigeria belong to all of us, what will the Igbo man tell his son that after the war they cannot become president.’
Africa Daily News, New York reports that this call was coming on the same day when the Governor of Ondo State and Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, Rotimi Akerodolu made a call on his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone its Presidential ticket to the South in the interest of fairness and equity.
