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Edwin Clark rejects Tinubu’s resolution on Rivers State crisis

Ihesiulo Grace 19 December 2023 0

Prominent Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark has described the resolution reached on the political crisis in Rivers State as undemocratic, dictatorial, and one-sided. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Clark said the resolution brokered by President Bola Tinubu is not fair and only a fresh attempt

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Orji Kalu attacks Edwin Clark for “betraying” southeast

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2022 0

The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Orji Kalu, on Thursday slammed elder statesman and former Federal Information Commissioner, Chief Edwin Clark. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Clark had taken Kalu to the cleaners, describing him as a “traitor”. While accusing the former Abia Governor of betraying the Igbo cause, the nonagenarian said that although Kalu […]

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Edwin Clark: Nigeria succeeds or we fail together, no secession

Ihesiulo Grace 26 May 2021 0

Ijaw leader Edwin Clark says he is against the major regions in the country going their separate, insisting that Nigerians should succeed or fail together. He stated this at a mass held to mark his 94th birthday in Abuja on Tuesday. Mr Clark, who said he was against secession, decried the wanton killings across the […]

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Naming of railway stations after Jonathan, Awolowo is an insult, Clark fires at FG

Ihesiulo Grace 6 August 2020 0

Veteran Ijaw leader and Elder Statesman of the Federal Republic, Sir Edwin Clark has fired at the Federal Government for dishonouring former president Goodluck Jonathan and foremost Nationalist, Obafemi Awolowo by naming newly designed government projects after the two former leaders. The Elder Statesman claimed that it is a gross disrespect to line up both […]

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You have never held any notable political appointment – Clark fires at Daura

Ihesiulo Grace 31 July 2020 0

Veteran leader of South South Nigeria, and Elder statesman of the Federal Republic, Edwin Clark has called out Mallam Mamman Daura over his inflammatory comments regarding the next Presidential elections in 2023. The President’s nephew had on Tuesday advised that the next Nigerian President should be elected on the basis of merit as against the […]

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Omo-Agege congratulates Edwin Clark @93, mourns Justice Ksribi-Whyte

Ihesiulo Grace 24 May 2020 0

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has extolled the leadership virtues of elder statesman and former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark on the occasion of his 93rd birthday. While describing Chief Clark as a crusader for equity and justice, Senator Omo-Agege applauded him for his patriotism and commitment to […]

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Edwin Clark petitions Buhari, NSA over police raid on his residence

Ihesiulo Grace 7 September 2018 0

Elder statesman and leader of the South-South region, Chief Edwin Clark, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Security Adviser, Major General Mohammed Babagana Monguno (rtd), over police raid on his Abuja residence. The erstwhile Information Minister is demanding for a full blown investigation into the matter and has named the Commander of the […]

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Jonathan, Okowa, others for Niger Delta Lifetime Achievements Awards

Ihesiulo Grace 2 September 2018 0

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Edwin Clark and the Publisher of Vanguard Newspapers, Sam Amuka would be honoured with the “Niger Delta Lifetime Achievement Awards” by Gbaramatu Voice Newspaper. Publisher of Gbaramatu Voice Newspaper, Mr Jacob Abai disclosed this in a press statement signed and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Warri. According to […]

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50 oil blocks: Niger Delta deserves right of first refusal — PANDEF

Ihesiulo Grace 10 June 2018 0

Niger Delta indigenes, Saturday, demanded from the federal government the Right of First Refusal (RoFR), in the renewal and award of new oil licenses, starting from about 50 oil blocks and marginal fields that will expire in 2019. National Leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), the umbrella body of monarchs, leaders and stakeholders of […]

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APC National Secretary faults Clark’s call for State of Emergency in North East

Ihesiulo Grace 10 March 2018 0

The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, has said that the call by Chief Edwin Clark for the declaration of state of emergency in the North East was misguided and ill-conceived. Buni was responding in a statement to an earlier call issued by Clark, in which he demanded President […]

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Declare state of emergency in Yobe, other states, Clark tells Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 6 March 2018 0

Former minister of information, Edwin Clark, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. The elder statesman gave the advice on Monday while addressing reporters at his residence in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Reacting to the abduction of some schoolgirls […]

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Biafra agitation is nonsense -Edwin Clark

Ihesiulo Grace 6 September 2017 0

ELDER statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday condemned the Biafra agitation led by Nnamdi Kanu. Clark spoke yesterday when the Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, Senator Shehu Sani, visited him in Abuja. He also condemned the quit notice by the Arewa Group to the Igbo living in the North, saying it was worrisome. […]