IJAW leader,
Chief Edwin Clark, has expressed disappointment with the New Year address of
President Muhammadu Buhari, saying President Buhari failed to speak on
topical issues affecting Nigerians.
Chief Clark,
who spoke yesterday, at his country home in Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government
Area, Delta State, after playing host to a delegation from the Olu of Warri, led by Prince
Toritseju Emiko, said President Buhari should have unveiled plans on how to
achieve restructuring of the nation’s federalism, stressing that restructuring of the federation had become
the most topical discourse in the country. “Mr. President was not addressing
Nigerians.
A New Year speech is an
address to the people, telling them what you have done or the ones you have
been doing. The current discussion in Nigeria today is restructuring.
Afenifere, governors in the country, all
sections of the country are all discussing restructuring.
The people of the
South -South are the most affected. 87 per cent of the nation’s revenue comes
from the South- South. Nigerians believe in restructuring. What do we do to
achieve restructuring? I was very much disappointed that the President said he
did not want restructuring.
Northerners are talking of restructuring, you have
heard the Sultan, Alhaji Balarabe Musa,
all of them are part of the majority of Nigerians talking about restructuring,”
he said.
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