Election: Give peace a chance, Clark urges politicians

By  Akpokona Omafuaire
WARRI — ELDER Statesman and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has called contesting candidates to give peace a chance because the international community is watching to see whether Nigeria could conduct a free and fair elections.

Clark told reporters at Kiagbodo, Delta State that  the recent upsurge of violence through out the country was deliberately geared towards the breakdown of law and order.

The South-South leader while predicting  peaceful polls, warned that it was wrong for people to take the law into their own hands and urged Nigerians to support the federal government in a bid to stage a credible polls.

Clark commended President Goodluck Jonathan for putting measures in place to plug all the security loopholes experienced during the run up to the elections, saying that it behoves on the citizens to ensure that the right things were being done.

He also joined other well meaning Nigerians in condemning the violent clashes in Akwa Ibom allegedly spearheaded by the governorship candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, describing the act as uncalled for.

Clark noted that the President cannot because of blackmail abdicate his constitutional responsibility to protect the citizens and their property, describing as unacceptable a situation where candidates take to intimidation and impose their ‘’crude and violent will on their political opponents notwithstanding constituted authority.”

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