FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark
has to tong-lashed the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, saying he deceived Nigerians ahead of the 2015 Presidential election with his campaign mantra, CHANGE.
Clark who noted this in his 688-page ‘Brutally Frank’ , his autobiography, said that throughout his administration, he betrayed Nigerians, and did not serve them contrary to his inaugural remark that he belonged to everybody.
The book which has five chapters was unveiled on Thursday in Abuja.
It captured the journey of Clark as a classroom teacher, a commissioner, minister, a Senator and national activist, spanning over seven decades.
In Chapter 22, titled, Buhari’s Nigeria from Page 523, Clark took a swipe at the former President, saying that nothing changed for the better during in his eight years and perhaps if there was any change at all, it was for the worse.
According to the elder statesman, there was massive conspiracy against Goodluck Jonathan’s government ahead of 2015 presidential election by northerners, just as he stressed that immediately after Buhari was sworn into office, he took off to Nigeria’s neighbouring countries, Niger, Chad, etc. with a view to mobilising their support, particularly in strengthening the Joint Task Force. He expected all neighbouring countries to contribute troops to the Joint Task Force. Unfortunately, he did not achieve his desired goal as the Joint Task Force started to disintegrate and no one knew its role and position today.
Clark in the book said, “there was massive conspiracy against Jonathan’s government at the 2015 presidential election, particularly by northerners who felt that the continuation of Jonathan’s government, whether legal or illegal, constitutional or unconstitutional, must stop in 2015. The conspiracy first began during preparations for the 2011 election which Jonathan eventually won.