{"id":151226,"date":"2025-02-18T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:17:18","slug":"nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria will miss him \u2013 Afenifere mourns Edwin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Tuesday said it received the passing of foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, with great shock.<\/p>\n<p>Clark, the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, died on Monday in Abuja at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Mr. Jare Ajayi, the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, said that Clark was passionate about Nigeria, just like the late Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received the news of the demise of Pa Edwin Clark with shock, the same way we received the news of the demise of our leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClark was very deep, and, of course, very fearless. He was a patriot par excellence. Nigeria meant so much to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issues that have to do with the people were of great concern to him. He will be greatly missed because he was a strong, influential voice,\u201d Ajayi said.<\/p>\n<p>Ajayi, who conveyed the condolences of Afenifere leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti, said Clark would forever be remembered for his contributions to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPa Edwin Clark was an active player in the Nigerian political scene; even when he was very old, he was still very active.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Clark) never shied away from commenting or expressing his opinion on any issue of national importance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we in Afenifere will also miss him, just as we know that other people in the South-South, in particular, and Nigeria as a whole will miss him,\u201d the Afenifere spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Tuesday said it received the passing of foremost Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, with great shock. Clark, the leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, died on Monday in Abuja at the age of 97. Reacting, Mr. Jare Ajayi, the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":151225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1522,1399,254],"class_list":["post-151226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-afenifere","tag-edwin-clark","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria will miss him \u2013 Afenifere mourns Edwin Clark - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Tuesday said it received the passing of foremost Ijaw leader, Chief E ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria will miss him \u2013 Afenifere mourns Edwin Clark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Tuesday said it received the passing of foremost Ijaw leader, Chief E ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-18T11:14:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-20T16:17:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739868827.199523.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"933\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria will miss him \u2013 Afenifere mourns Edwin Clark\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-18T11:14:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-20T16:17:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark\"},\"wordCount\":260,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739868827.199523.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afenifere\",\"Edwin Clark\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-will-miss-him-afenifere-mourns-edwin-clark\",\"name\":\"Nigeria will miss him \u2013 Afenifere mourns Edwin Clark - 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