Edwin Clark: Gowon should have let the Igbo leave… they’re treated as second class citizens | TheCable
Idris ShehuEdwin Clark, an Ijaw leader, says Yakubu Gowon should have allowed the Igbo to secede during his tenure as military head of state.
The ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party are yet to decide on the zoning of their presidential tickets.On Thursday, Ango Abdullahi, chairman of the Northern Elders Forum , said the next president should emerge through merit and not zoning.In reaction, the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum
He added that Nigeria “has never been steady since one of the legs was destroyed during the civil war”.“When Lord Fredrick Luggard created Nigeria in 1914, it did not say some people are superior to the other. Nigeria was a three-legged pot,” he said.
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