Prominent Nigerians, mostly serving and former political office holders and eminent personalities from all walks of life, converged on Abuja Thursday for the public presentation of the autobiography o
f Chief Edwin Clark titled ‘Brutally Frank’.
He extolled the numerous roles played by Clark and encouraged Nigerians, especially the youth, to embrace his sterling qualities. “We can endure this for a moment but what we are going through today is for a better tomorrow. Our citizens have hoped that tomorrow will be better than today and we won’t disappoint them.”
“Nigeria is structurally complex and structurally difficult but can never be difficult to manage. Our plurality and diverse cultures and with our religions constitute the source of our strength.” The former Head of State said: “Even before the circumstances of our shared national service brought E.K. Clark and I close, which I will explain shortly, I had become very close to his immediate younger brother, Ambassador B.A. Clark, who was one of the finest diplomats that Nigeria ever produced and rose to the pinnacle of the service.
“The period in which Nigeria emerged from its most challenging political turmoil was one that needed great dexterity and empathy in the arduous task of reconciliation, rehabilitation, reintegration, reconstruction and rebuilding our bonds of oneness. “This was what took us back to the Mid-West State and brought Edwin Kiagbodo Clark to enter the big shoes left by Enahoro.
“As if that was not enough, he also extended a hand of solidarity to the northern states by sending hundreds of science teachers to various parts of the northern states from the Mid-West and also attracted some of their young persons and gave them places in the best schools in his home state. “However, considering his strong personality, there were times that he would vehemently disagree with his colleague commissioners and military officers and worked hard to convince them on why his own position is better than theirs and any other.”
Jonathan said: “I wouldn’t be surprised because your boss, our father, General Gowon, believed so much in the unity of this country and each territorial dignitory and that is why 70 years after the war ended, sometime in 20l5, President Obama had to appeal to Nigerians not to do anything to undermine the integrity of our country and to respect the wishes of the people by invoking your mantra. To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done.
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