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Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Fareke: 5:21am On May 08, 2022 |
Ijaw national leader and First Republic Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, speaks to FRIDAY OLOKOR about the 2023 general election, demand for South-East presidency and related issues
https://punchng.com/northerners-asking-jonathan-others-to-join-presidential-race-insincere-edwin-clark/ 3 Likes
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Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Aufbauh(m): 5:25am On May 08, 2022 |
I heard from a reliable source that GEJ will declare on Wednesday. GEJ joining the APC will be a heavy blow & disgrace to those of his fanatical PDP supporters. Most especilally those who have refused to moved on from the electoral defeat he suffered from this same APC. 18 Likes |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Tonypens48(m): 5:45am On May 08, 2022 |
All these phases will come and go JEJ will not want to dent his image by coming so low into joining a retrogressive and confused party. When everything is over, it will be just a president. For now, let us watch the whole confusion playing out. Kindly check out my signature for your Assignments, Projects, Advertisements, etc... 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by MadamVanessa(f): 6:22am On May 08, 2022 |
Go and tell them that our dear father Jonathan is not desperate like the calamity called Buhari who wanted to rule at all cost and finally he got the power but couldn't know what to do with it rather than subjecting the people to endless suffering. Tinubu is cumming who's even more desperate than Buhari, the frog eyes is cumming to bury the dilapidated country finally. 31 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Tulsaguy: 6:26am On May 08, 2022 |
Aboki get sense pass all of una before na. I feel Jona too want it.... Just doesn't know what people's reactions might be if he decamp to APC. 10 Likes |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by MANNABBQGRILLS: 6:26am On May 08, 2022 |
More..... 9 Likes 6 Shares
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Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by jojejefinilo: 6:27am On May 08, 2022 |
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Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by MANNABBQGRILLS: 6:31am On May 08, 2022 |
Aufbauh:The more the merrier....... 5 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Zico5(m): 6:34am On May 08, 2022 |
Northerners calling upon Gej know what they are doing. They know after his four years, the power will return to the North. Everyone knows they are pushing him not because they love him but just that they want to quickly return to the power. Gej will go down as the most unintelligent man if he could shift party to APC openly. I wonder the reasoning of Nigeria politicians. They lack sense, integrity and commitment. 32 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Built2last: 6:40am On May 08, 2022 |
It's a trap for GEJ. It will end in shame. 3 Likes |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by muykem: 6:41am On May 08, 2022 |
They want to mess up GEJ. 1 Like |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by TriCee: 6:42am On May 08, 2022 |
They just want to bring oga Jona down to Bubu's level. Jonathan should know that the rogues in APC would never give him the ticket. 2 Likes |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by toprealman: 6:43am On May 08, 2022 |
Aufbauh:Tell your source that GEJ should go and rest. We need to move forward not backwards 11 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by TooMuchStuff: 6:43am On May 08, 2022 |
True talk |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by DMerciful(m): 6:51am On May 08, 2022 |
When you were serving as willing tools, you did not know you were selling your birthright. Goodmorning Pa Clark |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by composure: 6:52am On May 08, 2022 |
Aufbauh:That will not only make him the foolishness of a wise king but also a greedy lot 14 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by abdulahiMusa: 6:54am On May 08, 2022 |
post=112623980: Reading to type thrash as usual. @topic I think it's time for the SE to rule Nigeria for but it can't come on a platter of Gold, they should seek alliances with other regions instead of insulting or calling them names. Democracy is all about numbers, Buhari had to bend from his own conservative stand and form coalition with a major party in the SW before he won. 16 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by bluefilm: 6:56am On May 08, 2022 |
They want Jona to run so that if by some stroke of luck, Jona becomes the president, he will only serve for four years. Then power will return to the North once more. This is public knowledge so no need for all these gimmicks. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by IreneJane: 6:57am On May 08, 2022 |
Aufbauh: The reliable source is unreliable and unreasonable for GEJ to declare, even run for presidency because he would become a manipulated and useless elder state man afterward |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Ayodekfarms(m): 7:01am On May 08, 2022 |
post=112623980: May you not finish reading... Yeye person like you 10 Likes |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by MANDIPUTIN: 7:03am On May 08, 2022 |
Continuation of the interview: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere: And that is the reason why the northerners are saying that they couldn’t complete their term… Are we God? The man (Yar’Adua) died and somebody (Jonathan) was in office. Will the man in office resign for a northerner to take over? Have you ever heard of that anywhere in the world, asking an incumbent President to resign for a northerner, who wants to complete the tenure of Yar’Adua? That is the point they are still hammering on now. Is that a valid point? Now, if they are hammering on it, at the time of the 2015 presidential election, the law was very clear that for an incumbent to leave office, he must have completed two terms – two elections and not swearing in, not taking oath, as my friend Yakubu was saying. We debunked all that. Well, if there was an amendment to the constitution, which says if you finish the term of a previous government and you can only contest once, then that is a different thing. Now, some northerners are wooing southerners for the 2023 presidential race. For instance, they told the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to come out and run. They tell people from the South, such as Goodluck Jonathan, to come out and run. Do you think they are really sincere? They are not sincere because all they want is to divide the South, to use southerners to divide the South. That is all what they are doing. More southerners are falling into the trap. I understand, for instance, that Adams Oshiomhole was supporting Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But I was surprised to see him declaring for presidency and more of them are declaring. Why do you think that in the ruling All Progressives Congress there are so many people declaring for the presidential race? Their (northerners’) intent is to use them (southerners) to divide the South. When this argument of the South, you will be surprised that the aspirants will divide themselves; they have their own candidate among them and will say that if you don’t want to contest, we will contest and they will use the army to terrorise people. You have raised fears that if power is not given to the South-East, for instance, there are going to be problems. What gives you that impression? In 2014, apart from Rochas Okorocha, who is always a participant in any presidential election, northerners contested in the newly formed APC, which brought Buhari to power. Buhari was number one. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano State, came second; Atiku Abubakar came third, then (the late) Sam Ndah Isaiah of Leadership Newspapers came fourth, and Tinubu was to be the Vice-President of Buhari until he said, ‘No, we don’t want two Muslims to contest together’. Then in 2019, 12 northerners contested the presidential primary in the PDP; they were all screened in my house. Atiku was the first to be screened, followed by Bukola Saraki, and so on. Now, a man like Atiku is now 75 years old; to say in a dishonest way with his people, including Ango Abdullahi, that rotation is dead and buried. Jonathan was gone, the PDP now reversed rotation. What has come to Nigeria now that has made them change their minds and say they want competence? Are there more competent people in the North than in the South? In the 2014 national conference, you were one of those who canvassed devolution of powers and restructuring. Have you dropped the agitation? In 2005, Obasanjo set up what he called the National Political Reform Conference; I was the leader of the South-South as I was in 2014, and we took a position that the constitution should be liberalised; that there should be devolution of powers; that there should be fiscal restructuring or fiscal federalism. So, I didn’t start in 2014 when Jonathan was not in power. I remembered at that time, President Obasanjo sent a constitution to the conference, but the mode of the conference could not give the courage to the people he sponsored to introduce the matter; that was why the issue of a third term for Obasanjo was not discussed. Otherwise, we discussed devolution of powers and the turning of Nigeria into true federalism. Let me ask you, when in 2018, Buhari’s government set up a committee under (Mallam Nasir) el-Rufai, a competent and intelligent man, who is the governor of Kaduna State, with some other governors and past governors and other party leaders, about 19 of them, they produced a paper on restructuring; the report is almost 90 per cent of what is contained in the 2014 confab report. I have looked at the two and I have written an open letter to Mr President since he doesn’t want to see some of us: That please, if the 2014 national conference report is unacceptable to you, we, Nigerians, have agreed to accept el-Rufai and the APC’s report, which, according to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and el-Rufai himself, has been accepted by the APC. Why do you think Buhari’s regime has not done anything about restructuring and devolution of powers? What do you think are his fears? He doesn’t want it. Why? He wants to rule this country on his own or some people are behind him, advising him not to. Do they think that will break Nigeria? If they break it, we are waiting; some of us are already waiting to go to prison. With what is going on, do you foresee another civil war because of the crises everywhere, especially in the South-East? There is already a near civil war situation in the country. What happened in 1967 during the civil war? What is going on today is more than that. The Nigerian military forces were able to confront successfully the Eastern Nigeria Armed Forces, but today the same Nigerian Army, which we used to be very proud of, cannot bring an end to insurgency, banditry and kidnapping in the North-West, North Central, Boko Haram in the North-East and what is going on now in the South-East. And you want to hold elections, want to impose candidates on others and you think the people will say yes. No, they will not. Do you believe that the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, through a political solution or any other means may calm the tension in the South-East? Kanu’s case is subjudice, so one cannot comment on it because he has been freed of some of the charges. Out of 15 charges, eight of them are gone, it is remaining one. The remaining one, Kanu has now appealed to the Court of Appeal, so it is not proper for one to sit down and talk about Kanu. More so, if you release Kanu and you don’t zone the Presidency to the South-East, the situation has not changed, because as I asked General Yakubu Gowon, ‘You said there was no victor, no vanquished, but if that is the case, why are they (Igbo) still being regarded as a vanquished and conquered people? You should have allowed them to go if these people were to remain as second-class citizens in their own country after the civil war’. There is nowhere in Africa today where some people are second-class citizens. Do you think Igbo presidency can be realised in 2023? Why not! They have competent people. Then, where did Nigeria get it wrong as a country with all the problems? We got it wrong with bad leadership; we haven’t got a leader. Competence and incompetence do not arise in Buhari’s government; we haven’t got a leader in the country. The APC government, even after many years in power, still blames the PDP and says Jonathan was incompetent. Do you have anything to say about that? Every part of this country has competent people. Competence is not something given to one group of people and for any northerner to claim that they are more competent than southerners, then you can imagine what one will say to that. What is your view on consensus, zoning, direct and indirect primaries? Which do you believe will strengthen Nigeria’s democracy? You see, once there is no level-playing field, once the government is not responsible for the delegates, once some people can manipulate, there will be no free and fair elections in this country. So, consensus or no consensus, the law is very clear now. If you want to contest, all those who bought tickets, they are the ones to contest, they must give approval in writing for consensus to work and not by one President sitting in his house and manipulating and saying that this is my candidate – no way! That is not democracy. Just as some people argue that zoning of political positions is not democratic… What is democratic? Let me ask you a question: Are you coming to Nigeria whereby unless there is a candidate from the North, because of the population they said they have, no southerner will contest election? Is that what we are moving into? So, unless the APC produces a presidential candidate from the North, with their population, the PDP also wants to bring a candidate from the North believing that they have the population? What kind of country do we then have? A country where population is the competence? It won’t work. In the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu wants to be President, while Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo and others also want to. Will you advise them to step down for a southern candidate? Let them zone it to the South; once it is zoned to the South, we will put our house in order. https://punchng.com/northerners-asking-jonathan-others-to-join-presidential-race-insincere-edwin-clark/ 1 Like |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Eriggs: 7:06am On May 08, 2022 |
Season of pick ups |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Realists(m): 7:10am On May 08, 2022 |
Aufbauh: You mean the return of the clueless one. Part II, is loading ?, Nigerians are never serious. |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by PlayerMeji: 7:10am On May 08, 2022 |
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Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by 1875ma: 7:12am On May 08, 2022 |
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Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by BrickDevo: 7:16am On May 08, 2022 |
Too much of election/politics news on front page everyday, mods don't you have something else to push to front page, it is becoming boring everyday tinubu this, osibanjo that, buhari they..... Nawooooo 1 Like |
Re: Clark: Northerners Asking Jonathan, Others To Join Presidential Race Insincere by Homiesjinxbank: 7:23am On May 08, 2022 |
Even Edwin Clark is now a talkative.. 1 Like 1 Share |
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