By Seun Opejobi The leader of the Ijaw Nation, Chief Edwin Clark, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of “discriminat...
By Seun Opejobi
The leader of the Ijaw Nation, Chief Edwin Clark, has
accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of “discrimination and
injustice” against the Igbos.
Clark said the discrimination from the past administration
of former President Muhammadu Buhari against Igbos has not abated under
Tinubu’s government.
He noted that while Tinubu appointed 10 ministers from the
Southwest, only six had been appointed from the Southeast, adding that there
was no justification for the omission.
Clark stated this in a letter addressed to President Tinubu.
The letter reads partly: “Mr President, even in your
administration, the discrimination and injustice against the Igbos have not
abated. The old Eastern Region and the old Western Region, to which I belonged,
were equal competitors and partners before and during the First and Second
Republics, but today, you have appointed 10 Yorubas as ministers from the
South-West and only five ministers from the South-East, and you even failed to
give them the ministerial appointment due to their region that would have made
it six ministers. There is no justification for this grave omission and no
effort has been made to correct it.”
The Niger Delta elder charged Igbos of “Southeast or
wherever they are in Nigeria,” to stand up and “assert their rights
legitimately, judiciously and in a democratic way, to benefit like any other
Nigerian as it was before the civil war of 1967.”
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