Prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has berated Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha for saying that Igbos stood the best chance of producing the president in 2023 by supporting Buhari’s second term bid in 2019.
Speaking with journalists after a meeting between Buhari and the South-East governors and Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, Mustapha said, “This obviously might not be most appropriate time. You remember there was a programme in the south-east where Mr. President asked me to represent him and I flew the kite by telling the south-eastern states that their quickest and easiest means to presidency is to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term”.
But the elder statesman and First Republic minister described the statement as “unusual”, saying it should be condemned in its entirety.
The nonagenarian added that no one would be able to stop Igbo presidency when the time is right.
Clark made this known while paying a condolence visit to Governor Seriake Dickson over the death of his mother, Mrs Goldcoast Dickson.
According to him, “That is a very unusual statement. Is it a threat or an appeal? Nigerians will always vote for the candidates they believe in, candidates that will rule Nigeria without any trouble, without religious fanaticism, someone who doesn’t believe in ethnicity, somebody competent enough, healthy enough to rule Nigeria.
“This is the greatest country in Africa; by the way, the Igbo are in the South-East, they are part of this country from the First Republic. No one has put them aside; so when the time comes for the Igbo to be the President of Nigeria, nobody will dispute to it or stop them.”
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