An Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark has called for the immediate restructuring of the country if secessionist agitations are to be checked.
Speaking to newsmen at his Asokoro residence, Abuja, the former Federal Commissioner for Information said the struggle by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and agitations by Yoruba nationalists will be child’s play if Nigeria fails to restructure.
According to him, other Nigerians may take up violent agitation, plunging the country into chaos.
“Let me warn you that this country does not belong to a few individuals. What IPOB is doing, what the Yorubas are doing is still child’s play. We may all join and there will be chaos in this country,” he said.
Noting that all sections of the country are demanding for restructuring, he pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately convoke a representative assembly or town hall meeting to consider the Governor Nasir El- Rufai’s report or 2014 confab report on Restructuring.
By doing so, he said Buhari would have fulfilled All Progressive Congress’s promise to Nigerians when it was formed and during the 2015 general election.
Justifying his position, Clark alleged that the National Assembly has been spending N1 billion every year on amending the constitution of Nigeria but has failed to achieve results.
