Whoever wins the presidential vote will face strong lobbying by groups such as the Arewa Consultative Forum in the north and the South-South political organisations under the tutelage of veteran campaigner Edwin Kiagbodo Clark from the Niger Delta whose access to some of the militants has helped Jonathan to subdue some of the festering unrest in Nigeria’s main oil-producing region...
Delta State The results of the 2007 elections are still before a court of appeal in Benin and the PDP's internal disputes remain the same between Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark and Emmanuel Uduaghan the Governor whose tenure the Appeal Court annulled...
Oronto Douglas a lawyer activist and Niger Delta environmentalist is on his team and Jonathan has full support from the long-time Ijaw leader Chief Edwin Clark and fraternal contacts with other Delta activists and some of the militant groups...
A Delta State Elders' Forum led by Chief Edwin Clark a former federal Minister of Information rejected the amnesty initiative accusing the federal government of colluding with the northern oligarchy...
Ijaw former Information Minister Edwin Clark openly opposed Uduaghan's election on ethnic grounds...
A panel was set up consisting of Ijaw leaders from across the Delta including a former Information Minister Chief Edwin Clark as well as Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC) Secretary General Miabiye Kuromiema and Delta State's Chief Samson Y...
Heading for the South-South The key players on the South-South team include: Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (who calls himself Governor General of the Ijaw Nation and has opened communications with Vice-President Abubakar); Ijaw National Congress President Kimse Okoko; former activist and now Bayelsa commissioner Oronto Douglas; and former minister Edwin Clarke from Delta also an Ijaw...
