Clark, Horsfall, S’South Governors Rally for Nigeria’s Restructuring in Yenagoa Today

By Emmanuel  Addeh in Yenagoa
 

Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, former Head of the National Security Organisation, Chief Albert Horsfall and all Governors from the South South region of the country will today (Saturday) rally in support of Nigeria’s restructuring.

Coming under the umbrella of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), led by Chief Clark, the organisers will also use the occasion to demand a review of the current structure of the Nigerian federation. 

Billed to hold at the Grand Pavilion and Boat Club, Ox-bow Lake, Swali, Yenagoa,   the occasion will have as its Chairman, Horsfall. 

A statement yesterday in Yenagoa, signed by former Chief Whip of the old Rivers State, Chief Thompson Okorotie, and head of publicity, noted that the rally themed “restructuring the Nigerian Federation,”  was in furtherance of PANDEF’s belief  that  the 2019 general election was a referendum on restructuring of the country. 

The statement added that the forum was insisting that the Federal Government must restructure the country before the 2019 polls.    

 PANDEF said King Edmund Daukoru, the Amayanabo of Nembe, would be the royal father of the day while all former Governors of the South-South, serving and former ministers, chairmen, CEOs and members of boards and parastatals are special guests of honour. 

Other special guests of honour are: all the current and former National Assembly members, all current and former Speakers and members of Houses of Assembly of the South-South.     

 “We enjoin Afenifere, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Arewa Consultative Assembly, Middle Belt Forum, the clergy, traditional rulers, leaders and elders from across the nation, youth, women groups and the general public to attend the South-South Mega Rally. 

“Governors of South South extraction, PANDEF leader, Chief Edwin Clark, some eminent Nigerians and leaders of ethnic nationalities, civil society groups are expected to deliver speeches at the rally”, the statement said.

 It urged Nigerians to support the struggle for restructuring, insisting that the country could not work the way it was currently constituted. 

“Let’s restructure now, tomorrow may be too late. A restructured Nigeria will guarantee a free, fair, egalitarian, united, peaceful and prosperous nation where everybody, irrespective of region, religion, creed and status will be happy to call Nigeria his/her country.        

“We intend to use the rally to rally support for restructuring of Nigeria. The 2019 general election is a referendum on restructuring.  

“We, the people of Niger Delta/ South South want the Nigerian federation to be restructured to enthrone true federalism before the 2019 general election and it is doable, all that is required is the political will on the part of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”, PANDEF argued.