Elder statesman and National Leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, Edwin Clark has claimed that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu insulted him when he criticised him for going too far.
Clark stated that he advised Kanu to demonstrate his grievances, but not to go as far as killing people.
He explained that he told agitator that the war he was championing was fought when he was still in his mother’s womb, and advised him to tread carefully.
Clark, lamented that his advice fell on deaf ears, and the agitator went on to insult him.
The elder statesman disclosed this during an interview with The Sun.
According to him, “Once I criticized him for going too far. I accused him that you were in your mother’s womb when the war was being fought. This war took place in 1967 and you were not born at that time.
Take it easy. You have every right to demonstrate but don’t kill people, don’t do things that are not good for the country. He abused me back. Because I said in my statement that he should not include Delta State, Edo State and South South region. So they got angry and insulted me.
But what we are now talking about is a very serious issue. When he was being tried, the way the terrorism act was being enacted by Buhari, we didn’t like it. It was as if it was targeted against one person. So we criticized that one too.
But later, they said Kanu escaped. But on investigation, we discovered that it was the soldiers in Nigeria who went to attack him in his own home, invaded his own home in Umuahia in Abia and so the man escaped. So luckily enough, both the court, the Federal High Court found that it was true. So it was not a question of Kanu jumping bail. I’m now appealing to the federal government. I wrote an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. I said look, free Nnamdi Kanu. We did it before.”
