Restructuring: Buhari’s position is opposed to most Nigerians’, says Clark

Ijaw leader Chief Edwin Clark has said President Muhammadu
Buhari’s position on the call for the restructuring of the country
is opposed to the the popular aspiration of Nigerians.

Clark spoke yesterday in his Kiagbodo country home in Burutu,
Delta State while receiving a delegation from the palace of the Olu
of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, ed by Prince Toritseju
Emiko.

The Ijaw leader expressed disappointment in the president’s New
Year message, which, he said, failed to address the most pressing
issues to Nigerians.

According to him, only restructuring would end the system where
some Nigerians are treated as second class citizens, urging the
president to stop sticking to an unpopular opinion.

He said: “Mr. President was not addressing Nigerians. The New
Year speech is supposed to be an address to the people, telling
them what you have done or the ones you have been doing. The
current discussion in Nigeria today is restructuring.

“The Afenifere, governors and others are all discussing
restructuring. The people of the Southsouth are the most affected.
87 per cent of our revenue comes from the Southsouth. Nigerians
believe in restructuring. I was very much disappointed that the
President said he does not want restructuring.

“Northerners are talking of restructuring; you have heard the
Sultan of Sokoto, Balarabe Musa all of them are part of the
majority of Nigerians talking about restructuring. El- Rufai heads
APC committee on restructuring. Even the northerners have not
rejected restructuring.

“The National Assembly has no choice but must follow the people,
what the people are saying if majority of Nigerians say they want
restructuring the National Assembly has no choice. Nigeria must
solve the structural problem in the country where only some ethnic
groups can be governors in a state where there are others; where
some regions have more states and local governments than others. If
we don’t restructure Nigeria some people will be treated as second
class citizens.”

Clark commended the Olu of Warri for strengthening ethnic
harmony among ethnic nationalities in Delta State.

The Ijaw leader, who said his great grant father’s mother was
from an Itsekiri community known as Ugbokodo, urged the tribes in
Warri to live in unity.

Ijaw leader Chief Edwin Clark has said President Muhammadu
Buhari’s position on the call for the restructuring of the country
is opposed to the the popular aspiration of Nigerians.

Clark spoke yesterday in his Kiagbodo country home in Burutu,
Delta State while receiving a delegation from the palace of the Olu
of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, ed by Prince Toritseju
Emiko.

The Ijaw leader expressed disappointment in the president’s New
Year message, which, he said, failed to address the most pressing
issues to Nigerians.

According to him, only restructuring would end the system where
some Nigerians are treated as second class citizens, urging the
president to stop sticking to an unpopular opinion.

He said: “Mr. President was not addressing Nigerians. The New
Year speech is supposed to be an address to the people, telling
them what you have done or the ones you have been doing. The
current discussion in Nigeria today is restructuring.

“The Afenifere, governors and others are all discussing
restructuring. The people of the Southsouth are the most affected.
87 per cent of our revenue comes from the Southsouth. Nigerians
believe in restructuring. I was very much disappointed that the
President said he does not want restructuring.

“Northerners are talking of restructuring; you have heard the
Sultan of Sokoto, Balarabe Musa all of them are part of the
majority of Nigerians talking about restructuring. El- Rufai heads
APC committee on restructuring. Even the northerners have not
rejected restructuring.

“The National Assembly has no choice but must follow the people,
what the people are saying if majority of Nigerians say they want
restructuring the National Assembly has no choice. Nigeria must
solve the structural problem in the country where only some ethnic
groups can be governors in a state where there are others; where
some regions have more states and local governments than others. If
we don’t restructure Nigeria some people will be treated as second
class citizens.”

Clark commended the Olu of Warri for strengthening ethnic
harmony among ethnic nationalities in Delta State.

The Ijaw leader, who said his great grant father’s mother was
from an Itsekiri community known as Ugbokodo, urged the tribes in
Warri to live in unity.