CLARK, OTHERS WANT YOBE, ADAMAWA, BORNO GOVERNOR SACKED AND REPLACED WITH MILITARY ADMINISTRATORS

Some prominent Nigerians of minority extraction under the leadership of a Former Minister of  Information, Chief Edwin Clark have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Governors of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno States and replace them with military administrators,

Punch reports.

They said this was the only way the government could wage war against the Boko Haram insurgency in the affected states.

Besides, they added that full-scale state of emergency regime was needed in other to bring an end to the reign of terror in the troubled states.

The decision of the elders who were  operating under a political platform of the Congress for Equality and Change was reached at the end of a National Executive Committee meeting which took place at the Asokoro residence of Clark in Abuja on Tuesday.

In addition, it called on the Nigerian Armed Forces to adopt more effective tactics aimed at curtailing and ending the activities of the insurgents and to preserve its image and dignity.