Few days after a letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari by prominent Ijaw leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, went viral, the presidency has assured the Ijaw nation of protecting from prosecution and harassment of its leaders.
Recall that Clark had, in a letter made public by Vanguard, drawn the president’s attention to issues such as the “persecution and harassment” of Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo; the proposed cancellation of the Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State and the resumed bombing of oil installations in the Niger Delta.
But in a chat with The Nation, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, assured the elder statesman and other indigenes of the Ijaw nation of protection from the current administration.
He noted that the administration was only concerned with doing things right and not to persecute any particular group.
He said: “Anybody who is a follower of events in the country knows that this administration persecutes nobody.
“The administration is just asking all Nigerians to do the right thing and anybody that goes contrary to the law will answer, irrespective of where the person comes from.
“So if anybody says a particular group is being targeted for attack or assault or persecution, right thinking Nigerians know that that is not true.”