Comrade Omobolanle Dickson,Tinubu: Clark Deserves Pity from Nigerians # is Tinubu the leader of the Yorubas?# Rather than often criticising elder statesman and South-south leader, Chief Edwin Clerk, over his views against the Yoruba people, former Lagos State Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, has said the latter deserves pity from Nigerians. Tinubu in a reaction signed by his Special Adviser, Media, Sunday Dare, to some published utterances by the former Information Minister and a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan, that the Yoruba race had no leader, said Clarks utterances simply fits into the trend of near idiotic vitriolic attacks on any perceived opponents of the president. While emphasising that his response to the octogenarian was to educate and enlighten him, Tinubu added that his corrective measure was necessary before it is too late for Edwin Clark to rescue himself from destruct. He said: When elderly men like him (Clark) talk the way he talks, we know that Nigeria is in trouble. The more he talks, the more we know wisdom has left him. At a time like this, dialogue is good. Diatribe is not. Clark should perhaps listen more and talk less. His recent comments about the lack of leadership among the Yorubas was telling but not so much against Yorubas but as to the Chief himself. Whoever made him an expert on the Yorubas needs to rescind that appointment? Clark is not competent to utter such a comment. He would be better advised to tend to his own house and put that in order instead of remarking on the quality of a home that he sees from a far and cannot enter except through the kindness, the owner, he noted. According to him, Clarks attack was fired against former President Olusegun Obasanjo and other leading Yoruba politicians and himself, who had refused to join the Jonathan choir. He, therefore, stressed that this is the problem with people like Clark. The nation is suffering a political, economic and moral slide that must be arrested. If not, we shall crash against the hard rock of ill fate. Yet, all he can do is pound the ethnic drum. This is the politics of old and has no place here. If we continue in this way, we shall crash and that crash will not be a pretty one. The APC leader said Clark should not have insulted the Yoruba people and some of their leaders, querying what took him to Ikenne several times? Who were those he met with there or is that what he found out from Ikenne is that the Yorubas have no leader? However, no one will take the bait he has tried to toss into the public arena. He should come and claim his mess that we as a united and not an ethnically divided nation can walk forward.” He noted that whether Tinubu was a Yoruba leader or not the issue, since he was not staking claim to be the leader of the Yoruba, but that instead, he was a national leader because his aspiration was beyond seeking the betterment of the Yoruba people at the detriment of other Nigerians.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:46:47 +0000
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