{"id":121136,"date":"2019-05-27T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=121136"},"modified":"2019-05-27T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T11:28:12","slug":"how-boko-haram-tried-to-convert-goodluck-jonathan-to-islam-clark-makes-shocking-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=121136","title":{"rendered":"How Boko Haram tried to convert Goodluck Jonathan to Islam – Clark makes shocking revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said that dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, sent a message to former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to covert to Islam during his time as President.<\/p>\n

Clark stated this in a message on the \u201cState of the nation\u201d which he made available to reporters on the occasion of his 92nd birthday.<\/p>\n

He said that increasing insecurity in the country, which President Muhammadu Buhari has been unable to bring to a standstill in the last four years, was seriously distressing to him.<\/p>\n

He claimed that there was a top-level conspiracy among top government officials and highly placed politicians in the killings and violence by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI call on President Buhari to honestly come to terms with the stark truth, that his current efforts with his security apparatus are grossly inadequate for the task.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call on Mr. President to urgently convene a sober \u2018National Discourse on National Security\u2019 of former Heads of State, Presidents, statesmen and leaders, women and selected youths in Nigeria to work out a consensual and amicable resolution of this long, seemingly intractable, challenge afflicting the country since the entry of Boko Haram menace in the national psyche.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile also pleading with Boko Haramists, herdsmen, bandits, whatever name they choose to call themselves, to please stop this dastardly act, I enjoin all Nigerians to join in praying fervently for our nation for God\u2019s mercy. We do not have any other country to call our own.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians should unite, be courageous and sincere to fight Boko Haram to avert the disintegration of the country, now that it is clear that the government cannot do it alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cFellow Nigerians, you will agree with me that the issues raised in my 87th birthday in 2014 are still plaguing us and it is even worse. I am pained; my heart bleeds for our dear country, Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoreover, it is the reason I have decided not to celebrate, again, this time. I cannot be celebrating when people are being killed, maimed and rendered homeless.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot be celebrating when kids who could be my grandchildren and great-grandchildren are abducted and held captive. There are many things wrong, ranging from the question of equality and diversity, economy, infrastructural development, unemployment, lack of power and most importantly, security.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said that dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, sent a message to former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan to covert to Islam during his time as President. Clark stated this in a message on the \u201cState of the nation\u201d which he made available to reporters on the occasion of his 92nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[37,41,3914,4384],"class_list":["post-121136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-boko-haram","tag-buhari","tag-edwin-clark","tag-gudluck-jonathan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}