Nigeria: Yoruba Have No Leaders - Edwin Clark

23 January 2014

A former minister of information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday said Yoruba presently do not have a leader, adding that Asuwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other prominent persons now parading themselves as Yoruba leaders can easily be bought over.

Clark who spoke in his Abuja residence during a visit by South-south community leaders, chiefs and elders in the FCT, said since the death of Chief Adekunle Ajasin, Pa Abraham Adesanya and Chief Bola Ige, no Yoruba leader has emerged. According to him, Tinubu and the others are people money can buy, but money cannot buy leadership.

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