2023 is the time for Igbo Presidency – Chief Edwin Clark

The Prominent Ijaw Leader and Nigerian Nationalist, Chief Edwin Clark, has shown his support for Igbo Presidency come 2023.

First Republic Minister of Information gave his support when he received in the audience, the leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and some South-East leaders led by the President General, Professor George Obiozor, at his Asokoro, Abuja residence.

The Statesman noted that the present south-South would not have been able to become a region in the first republic without the support of Former Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Clark said, “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 I was 20 years when he visited Warri, we trekked 12 miles to come and see him.

“Some of the problems we are having today in Delta was as a result of the support from Azikiwe and without that, we would not have got Mid-West region that later became Bendel State and now Edo and Delta states. We are together, we are one.

“We are supporting the South East region. Anybody from the Mid West, 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 Igbo 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 some states like in other zones if that will stabilize Nigeria.

“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 fight for anything 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.”