Soon after President Olusegun Obasanjo made Goodluck Jonathan what he
became between 2007 till date, he was hijacked by Ijaws as a regional
president and they made sure he had no time for OBJ.
Now, the loss of last month’s presidential re-election effort by
Jonathan has continued to rubbish most of those who had hijacked him,
including the desertion of the once bubbling Abuja residence of his
god-father, Chief Edwin Clark, located in the expensive Asokoro district
of the FCT, Abuja.
The home once had a security force of about 12 soldiers, civil defence officers and the police...
In the past, politicians who were looking for appointments or favours of
the now-humbled PDP, thronged the place to seek the approval of the
self-appointed leader of the Ijaw tribe.
Apart from soliciting favours, some of the politicians visited Clark to
report those they considered to be moles within the Presidency and the
PDP at both national and state levels to him in the hope he could use
such information to their benefit.
However, since the President’s defeat by General Muhammad Buhari of the
APC, the politicians have all disappeared from the presence of the once
influential man.
When visited on Sunday, the house has become a ghost of its past. Most
security men have been recalled by their bosses, who have concluded that
with Jonathan’s defeat, there is no need to attach them to a political
hanger-on who should never have had them in the first place.
