Clark is Jonathan’s enemy, says Mustapha Akanbi

For threatening war if President Goodluck Jonathan loses his reelection bid on February 14, Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday, received a hard knock from former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Mustapha Akanbi.
He said Clark, through his utterances, is Jonathan’s enemy.
Rather than serve national interest, he said Clark has chosen to protect his personal interest.
Speaking at the opening of a public lecture organised by the Mustapha Akanbi Foundation (MAF) in Ilorin, Kwara State, he also described the call by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), for the general election to be postponed as “suspicious and mischievous”.
He said: “The unsolicited advice by Col Sambo Dasuki in far away London that the 2015 election be postponed is ill-motive. I see mischief in that advice as it must be evident even to the unwary, that such postponement will do more harm than good. The advice is suspect and not from the best of motives. It is, however, a delight that majority opinion has rejected it. More importantly, Prof Attahiru Jega has outrightly rejected it.
“The second issue is the statement credited to the political octogenarian Chief Edwin Clark and Ijaw peoples leader. He openly castigated Prof Jega, accused him of bias and incompetence. This is most unfortunate.
“With the approach of the 2015 elections, the threat to national unity and cohesion has been on the increase. Political gladiators have been spitting fire and heating up the polity as never before. Threats of taking up arms and breaking up Nigeria, if a particular candidate does not win the election, rent the air. Some of the protagonists of disintegration are elders who should know better but have chosen to serve personal ends instead of national interest.
“Our teeming unemployed youths are now being mobilised and recruited to re-enact the events of 1993 which sent Nigeria into the doldrums. We are told that arms and ammunition are being stock-piled by the war mongers and ‘commercial politicians’ to plunge Nigeria, once again, into a state of unnecessary civil war.”