The Convener and National Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and Leader of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum, SMBLF, Senator Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, lived the concluding part of his action-packed life at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, where he died last Monday for some interwoven reasons.
He told Saturday Vanguard years before his death that it was to provide a central location for leaders of southern Nigeria to forge a common front on matters of national importance.
IHe ensured this by getting the South-East leaders under the auspices of the Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo and Afenifere under the umbrella of the South-West to unite with the South-South, which he led before reaching out to the Middle-Belt leaders in northern Nigeria.
Clark desired an encompassing coalition of incorruptible leaders from all sections of the country to engage the government and speak for the people at all times. He was working towards it when he finally gave up the ghost this week.
The other reason he described as personal was to gain easier access to medical facilities in the nation’s seat power because of certain health challenges an aged person like him would always face.
