by Ranti Joseph
Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark, on Friday has insisted that soldiers will be deployed to polling centres to ensure hitch-free elections.
He disclosed this in Abuja when the leadership of Jonathan Sambo Support Group in Gombe South/Central Senatorial District of Gombe State paid him a courtesy visit.
He said what the people desire is a safe environment to exercise their rights and this could only be achieved with deployments of soldiers. “Our people want safety when they go out to vote and the soldiers would be deployed to guarantee that,” he said.
Clark, who also spoke on the on-going crisis in the ruling party the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that candidates’ imposition would be the party’s major undoing in the elections noting that the imposition of candidates at all levels by PDP leadership would haunt the party at the polls.
He wondered why the leadership of the party allow that to happen in the first place.
“I am very sad indeed that people in Gombe, majority of our minority people are being held hostage. The problem of imposition is not limited to Gombe, the problem PDP has today across the country was caused by imposition of candidates, being replaced by people who are not qualified for reason best known by the party. So these are problems we are trying to resolve. A situation whereby a governor of a state would try to nominate everybody to become part of him is not democracy,” he stated.
