HOME > NEWS Clark: Sule Lamido ‘Not Qualified’ to Be Nigeria’s President -- Chief Edwin K. Clark Says he’s educationally deficient, calls Amaechi recalcitrant Omon-Julius Onabu Elder statesman and ex-Minister of Information, Chief Edwin K. Clark, has said that Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State is ‘not qualified’ to vie for the position of Nigeria’s president in a country of numerous eminently qualified people. Clark described Lamido’s reported opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid as merely a noise orchestrated by some northern elements who seem to believe that they are superior to other Nigerians or that they have exclusive right to rule the country. Reacting to Lamido’s reported dissociation from the decision of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors to support President Jonathan to run again for the presidency in 2015, the elder statesman practically reduced Lamido to an unknown quantity as far as the presidential seat of Nigeria is concerned. The South-south zonal leader made these remarks while fielding questions from journalists in Kiagbodo, his country home in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. “Besides being brought up by the late Mallam Aminu Kano, Lamido has nothing significant to present as credentials that qualifies him to vie for the presidential position in 2015,” he pointed out. The fiery politician and former member of the Nigerian Senate adduced two reasons for his submission on the Jigawa governor, alleging that Lamido should be cooling his feet in jail now for helping himself to Jigawa State’s public funds but for the fact that he was still enjoying the privilege of “immunity” as a governor. Moreover, Clark also argued that Lamido was not qualified for the exalted office of Nigeria’s number one citizen simply because the governor is educationally deficient. Nevertheless, in response to a question on the efforts he was making as a leader in the South-south geo-political zone to douse the raging political tension arising from the difference between President Jonathan and Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, Clark also lashed out at Amaechi for allegedly rebuffing the entreaties of elders and traditional rulers from the area. He described Amaechi as “recalcitrant” and unwilling to listen to any wise counsel or to change because of his personal ambition to be Nigeria’s vice-president by being a running mate of Lamido possibly In 2015. He named the United States of Amercia civil rights campaigner, Rev Jesse Jackson, and the a prominent traditional ruler in Rivers State, the Amayenabo of Opobo, as being among the numerous eminent leaders that joined him in the effort to persuade Amaechi to abandon the warpath which he failed to heed. Clark spoke at the campus of the nascent Edwin Clark University Kiagbodo, where he took receipt of a set of law books and journals from the Delta State Deputy Governor, Prof Amos Utuama (SAN) on Wednesday, on behalf of the proposed institution initiated by him.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:53:37 +0000
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