Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- If you were a peripatetic journalist or an itinerant political reporter in 1991, there is the likelihood that you would have encountered Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, elder-statesman, senator, former minister of information, nationalist, erstwhile commissioner for education, and later Finance in the old Midwest region, PANDEF leader, and above all, leader of the Ijaw, who passed away peacefully on 17 February 2025 at the ripe old age of 97.

Deeply vocal, collegial and astute, he will be missed by many, including an astounded nation, family, and associates in grief, and a community reeling in shock that the Iroko whose resilience, courage, intellectual acuity, infectious steadfastness and love ramified both triumph and happine...