Prominent Ijaw leader and First Republic Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has supported the moves by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo to ensure that Nigeria’s next President in 2023 emerges from the South-East. Clark stated this on Sunday when he received the leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo and some South-East leaders led by the President-General, Prof George Obiozor, at his Asokoro, Abuja residence. He pledged to mobilise his people to reciprocate Azikiwe’s gesture by working with the South-East leaders to produce an Igbo President in 2023. He called on the Igbo speaking people in Delta State to forget the idea of contesting the nation’s presidency in 2023, stressing that the position was the exclusive reserve of the Igbo in the South-East. “I have said it; all the Igbo in Anioma, Rivers, in Delta, wherever they are, this is the time for Igbo, South-East President.

Source: Punch April 18, 2021 23:26 UTC