Chief Edwin Clark Trying To Pocket South South - Biafra Nations League, (BNL)

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Biafra Nations League, BNL, have descended hard on Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark describing him as an ethnic jingoist promoting his Ijaw ethnic group to dominate the rest of South South. The Deputy National Leader of BNL and Head of Operations, BBs Media, Ebuta Akor Takon was reacting to Chief Edwin Clark's BBC Pidgin interview where he said that the South South is not part of Biafra.

Addressing newsmen in Ikom, Cross River State, Takon, an Ejagham said the Ijaw Leader is not speaking for his tribe and the rest tribes in the South South He recalled in 2007 how Edwin Clark visited Calabar to hold meeting with Cross Riverians and Akwa Ibom people to reject Peter Odili's Presidential ambition calling him an Igbo man who will not be allowed to fly the South South ticket.

"We have all his records, when it is for the interest of his tribe he will gang up against others, now he said South South won't join Biafra including the Igbos, but in 2007 he told us that we shouldn't allow Igbo ticket in South South". Takon admitted that some people in the South South detest Biafra because they believe it is an Igbo project, insisting that the Igbos did not create Biafra.

He recalled Biafra Heroes from Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers and Delta States including two prominent warlords, General Philip Effiong and Col. Joe Achuzie, adding that the Ijaw Leader wants to pocket other tribes in the South South by speaking for the people without being authorized to do so.

Takon, a Biafran leader from Ejagham ethnic group in Cross River State said that some people in the South South are confused because they do not speak one language, according to him, "some feel their tribe is capable of standing as a nation, for instance Adaka Boro declared Niger Delta Nation for the Ijaws, then Cross River, Akwa Ibom and even Edo were not part of Niger Delta.

It was for the Ijaws, even the Ijaw youths Kaima declaration proved me right. Another person was Ken Sarowiwa who never believed that the Ogoni had anything in common with the Ijawws. He fought for just the Ogoni tribe". He accused Edwin Clark and some elders from Ijaw extraction of misleading the South South people with the belief that Adaka Boro fought for entire South South in other to place every tribe under the influence of the Ijaw ethnic group. "We won't allow people from a particular tribe in South South who call themselves elders to speak for my Ejagham tribe or the rest tribes in Cross River, Akwa Ibom and other areas in South South, The time where some Ijaws will be the ones to tells us that we are part of Adaka Boro vision is gone".

"He is talking out of greed, he wants an Ijaw Niger Delta where we from the other tribes will not have a say like what they are doing to us now in the NDDC, especially we Cross Riverians whose oil wells has been taking away.

NDDC only recognize the Ijaws. That is why when the government settles the Ijaw youths and their militants they feel they have settled all of us in the South South. Even as Akpabio is the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs they are not happy because they want an Ijaw man. That's greed. Chief Edwin Clark should preach unity in the South South before condemning Biafra". Takon advised.

Biafra Nations League said that the people of the South South are the aboriginal inhabitants of the Bight of Biafra and not the Igbos, adding that the Igbo people exerted much influence in Biafra struggle due to their population.