Elder statesman and federal commissioner of Information in the First Republic, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday described the naming of the Agbor Railway Station after former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as humiliating.
Clark who stated this in an open letter addressed to the minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, said that regardless of how well meaning the reason for naming the station after Jonathan is, it diminishes the prestige of a former president when the same honour is also bestowed on others.
The elder statesman who recalled how he tried to intervene in the fight between Jonathan and Amaechi, advised the minister to begin to pursue the path of reconciliation with his kith and kin.
He said: “While it is said to be an honour on the former president by the federal government and your ministry, the Ministry of Transportation, because it is a known fact that the resuscitation of rail transport is one of the legacy projects of the former president, but for us in the Niger Delta and indeed to well-meaning Nigerians this ‘honour’, diminishes the prestige of af ormer president when the honour is also bestowed on others.”
