In an interview with The Sun News, veteran politician Pa Edwin Clark, the founder of the Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), said that the group's mission was to protect the rights of citizens of the Southern and Middle Belt regions as well as national minorities. In this conversation with JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, the former federal commissioner for information covered a wide range of other subjects, such as the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the marginalization of Igbo people, the minimum wage, state police, and allegations of nepotism against President Tinubu.

The Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum was founded by the people who live and lead in these regions. The regions of South-West, South-South, and South-East are collectively referred to as Southern, along with 17 governors. As part of the Middle Belt, we are talking about the Plateau, Benue, Kwara, Niger, Nassarawa, and Kogi. Still, its influence is not limited to a certain area. For instance, Major General Lekwot is the commander of Southern Kaduna, which is a part of us. Dr. Bitrus Pogu is the Middle Belt Forum president. It includes, as previously said, the Yoruba-populated areas of Niger and Kwara, as well as the northwest states of Kaduna, Kebbi, and Zamfara. comparable to Kwara State's former military governor, Adebayo.

So, contrary to what you have been told, they are not from southern Nigeria. Former Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was ill in Saudi Arabia at one point in history. As a result, many groups, like as the Yoruba, South-South, and South-East parties, stated that they thought Jonathan should be made to act.

He Said: "the Nigeria to which I was born for the past 97 years, the Igbos and the Yorubas were competitors, they were like two brothers fighting among themselves, working together and playing together. When you talk about the intellectual and social angles, the competition was between the Igbos and the Yorubas.