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Elder statesman and leader of the Niger Delta, Chief Edwin Clark, has urged the incoming administration in Nigeria to restructure the country to achieve peace.

The foremost Ijaw leader, stated this when he gave his blessings to the Labur Party governorship candidate in Delta State, Mr. Ken Pella, in his Asokoro, Abuja residence, yesterday.

Clark said, “We want a better Nigeria, a new Nigeria, if you don’t restructure Nigeria, it will be very difficult to maintain peace in this country. Nobody is going to be second class citizen and another one first class citizen in the same country. No one will allow it.

“That was the reason we celebrated the 17 governor’s declaration, popularly known as the Asaba Declaration, which agreed that the presidency should be zoned to the South.”

Clark said the Asaba Declaration informed the decision of the Southern, Middle Belt Leaders Forum to reject any of the southern governors that supported northern presidential candidate.

He said, “We agreed that we will not support any governor that supports a northern presidential candidate. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa did it, so we are no longer with him and the Peoples Democratic Party.