edwin clarkLeader of the Ijaw nation, Chief Edwin Clark, has again flayed the opposition for always using the insecurity in the Northeast against President Goodluck Jonathan, challenging them to learn from the recent incident in Paris, France, where terrorists killed 12 journalists.
Clark, who stated this while addressing newsmen in Abuja, described former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Abubakar Atiku, as the most corrupt leaders that the country has ever produced. He also alleged that the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammad Buhari, was not as clean as people were made to believe.
Speaking when he received a delegation of Northern Youths Movement for Positive Change led by David Glavda, the former federal commissioner noted that the nation should learn from the recent incidence in Paris where terrorists killed 12 journalists in a bomb attack as over 3.7 million people marched in solidarity with their President in an event that was attended by over 40 world leaders.
He said: “But in Nigeria, the opposition will use the press to attack the government for no just cause and make inflammatory and inciting statements that the Boko Haram was brought by Mr. president while they know that Boko Haram is mainly used to destabilize the government in support of the statements they made earlier that ‘they will make the country ungovernable unless they are in power.”
Stressing that the opposition does not see insecurity as ‘a national problem’, Clark said, “They refused the extension of state of emergency in the three northern states in order to benefit from the confusion that will arise during elections in those areas where insurgency thrives”.
The elder statesman, while speaking on corruption charges against the Jonathan-led government, told journalists that those shouting to the roof were the real corrupt people and alleged that Obasanjo and Atiku were the most corrupt leaders.
According to him, “Those of them who are corrupt are the ones shouting corruption to divert attention. Obasanjo is one of the most corrupt leaders and I am going to give my own account of him very soon because he has been busy shouting corruption and he is the most corrupt person. Abubakar Atiku is another corrupt person. Both himself and Obasanjo accused themselves of squandering PTDF money.
“They are shouting corruption, corruption; what do you want to do to fight corruption? They have not said anything,” he said.
He went on to lambast Buhari as one whose hands were not clean as people were made to believe, stressing that “Buhari brought three consultants, his in-laws and they were mere consultants. Because as usual, he was not mentally alert, he cannot do anything, he delegated the job of PTF to this three people who were mere consultants as executive director.
“My brother (Prof. Clark who was also a member of the board) even threatened to resign. Buhari did nothing at PTF. It was these people that were busy running PTF excluding other members of the trust fund.
“And at the end of it, Obasanjo set up an inquiry and that inquiry found Buhari and his three men guilty of squandering N25 billion and that had been unaccounted for till today. Obasanjo in the interest of peace refused to make the outcome of the report public.
“Last week, that report was leaked, we are going to comment. If anybody says that Buhari’s hands are clean that is not true,” he alleged.
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