It was tributes galore as ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Labour Party’s flag bearer in last presidential election, Peter Obi and others pour encomiums on Late Elder statesman Pa Edwin Kiagbodo Clark at his night of tributes on Wednesday night.
Tributes:
Goodluck Jonathan: We cannot find a replacement for EK Clark:
“Now E.K. Clark is gone, in the Niger Delta, do you think we can have a replacement for E.K. Clark? And I say that you don’t need to look for a replacement for E.K. Clark because you will not get it.
“If we must as a nation go one party, then it must be designed, it must be planned by experts and we know what we are going in for. But if we come through the back door by political manipulations then we are heading to crisis.
“So I’ll advice that probably a country like Nigeria it is better we allow the system to stay as it is, yes the multi-party but if we for some reasons we must go one party, then it should not be an accident.
Peter Obi:
” I am happy that Gen. Gowon is here and I am happy that Jonathan is here but I can tell you that their sacrifice is in vain. They’ve sacrificed for nothing. We were in this country when people were protesting when there was no need to protest under Jonathan, where are those protesters? Have they died?
Chief Mike Ezekhome SAN:
“My solution now not just damage assessment as I roundup, we must promote transformational leadership, adopt technology in governance, implement structural and sectoral reforms, advance currency and market reforms, invest in human capital, encourage cultural and moral ethos.
Not a Nigeria that we are seeing now where people of questionable characters are given doctorate degrees, national honours, in the churches they are made to sit in the front rolls at the front pews, in the mosques they are made to sit at the front mats. We need moral rearmament, moral re-orientation.
Former Minister of Information, John Nnayewondo:
“A courageous father that can speaks truth to power, so was Chief Edwin Clark. No greater tributes can be paid to him than to make sure that we do not leave our country void of people of his character.