Elder statesman, Edwin Clark says Nigeria risks disintegrating, unless power comes to the South in 2023.
Clark said this in a recent statement, obtained by POLITICS NIGERIA, where he warned the two top political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), against zoning the presidency to the North.
The statement reads in part: “Firstly, I wish to use this medium to advise my most respected Peoples Democratic Party chieftains in the persons of former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State, and other PDP aspirants from the north, that in the interest of maintaining the unity of this country to which they have contributed so much, to re-consider their desire of wanting to contest for the presidential election in 2023, because both by the PDP constitution and by convention, it is now the turn of Southern Nigeria to produce the president of Nigeria in 2023, after President Muhammadu Buhari’s 8 years.
“To do otherwise is to invite chaos, which will lead to the disintegration of our dear country.”
On Saturday, Clark had said “in any case where we (southerners) fail to come up with a consensus candidate, I will have no option than to support Dr. Bukola Saraki”.
