Ijaw elder-statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade will give Nigeria a better future, if allowed to succeed.
The Ijaw leader spoke in Warri, Delta State, at the announcement of the academic year of the newly approved Law Faculty of Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo (ECUK).
Speaking in the company of the university’s management team, led by its Vice Chancellor, Prof Timothy Olagbemiro, the Ijaw leader advised Nigerians to support President Buhari’s anti-corruption fight because it remained the only way to the nation’s greatness.
In his words: “This country will have to be cleaned and I’m happy we have a President, despite every other thing, who has now stood up to fight corruption. We should support him. I know this country will progress, if corruption is reduced to the minimum.
“If corruption reduces to the minimum and this country is restructured, we’ll have a better Nigeria. I’m not looking for a Nigeria where some people are first class and others are second class. If you make some people second class, they will fight their way through and there’ll be no peace in this country.
“I am appealing to you – the media – that when you are emphasising those things that bind us together, bring out the ills of the society.
“These people, who are cheating us, these unpatriotic legislators, must be brought to book. There should be investigation of what has been on for long time: why they have been padding the budgets, including unapproved projects, which were not discussed on the floor of the House but put there by the chairman and those in the position to do so.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us and we must do our least bit to bring progress to this country. We must fight to preserve it. Nobody is superior to the other in this country. No one group can do it alone. Those people will be enemies of Nigeria.
