BY Taiwo George
Edwin Clark, Nigeria’s former minister of information, is giving Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next month’s presidential election, an outside chance of ending insecurity in the country.
The elder statesman also accused former president Olusegun Obasanjo of supporting Buhari ahead of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Clark, who was speaking at a news conference in Abuja, called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to expel the former president from the ruling party.
“If Buhari comes and insurgency stops, it is because they control it,” he said.
“They know how Boko Haram started; it is easier for them to stop it.
“Buhari and Obasanjo are the same; they are in a marriage of convenience just to remove Jonathan.
“If a man you dissolved his committee (PTF) and he could not account for N25 billion and you are now saying that man is not corrupt. Obasanjo is defending him because he wants APC to win. How much corruption have you found in Jonathan that you are calling him corrupt?
“There is a big trouble in this country when corrupt people call others corrupt. What is wrong with PDP? That man should not be allowed to be in the party.
“You beg him all the time, he has made up his mind, he gathered APC women to abuse President Jonathan.”
Clark alleged that Attahiru Jega, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is not capable of organising a free and fair election.
“I have lost confidence in INEC. How can a university professor be so biased and does not want Jonathan to come back?” he asked.
“It is so disgraceful that he has allowed ethnicity and religion to take control of him.”
The octogenarian also said that the peace accord signed by presidential candidates was bound to fail because Buhari would not keep to the terms of the agreement.
He said it was a shame that the peace accord was necessitated by foreigners but expressed delight “Jonathan was able to make himself available for such”.
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