LITERARY icon, Prof. J.P. Clark, yesterday said that Nigeria was not set up for an ‘Arab Spring’. Reacting to a story in The Guardian of yesterday in which he was wrongly quoted, Clark said Arab Spring was not possible in Nigeria because the people cannot mobilise for action, except by trucks and trains to Abuja, and when they get there, Aso Rock is too removed from them.
Stressing that the nation’s capital was moved to Abuja not for lack of land in Lagos but just to stop Nigerians from protesting.
He added that the military argued that “the capital shall not be on the coast but in the centre of the country”, stressing, however, that many other countries of the world have their capitals on the coast.
Source: Guardian
