The convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has called for the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

The elder statesman said this in the course of an interview with The Vanguard newspaper.

He said the pro-secessionist should be detained for calling for a boycott of the forthcoming election in Anambra state and subsequent elections that would take place in the region.

He questioned the marginalisation which the IPOB and other pro=Biafra groups use as a clarion call.

He opined that the Igbos have had turns at government and also had at different times in the nation’s history, had their kinsmen in positions of power and influence.

According to him, the inability of those who got to these positions to significantly aid their region is their doing. Marginalisation, for him, is the reality faced by minority groups in the country.

He said: “These boys who are going around, and led by Nnamdi Kanu, some of them were not born at that time, and if they were born, they were very little children. I agree that President Buhari’s government has marginalised them.

He went on to give other instances of Igbos having a person in power or close to it.

“If the Igbo are marginalised, they are being marginalised by the present administration and I am one of those who supports them in their cries against marginalisation, but secession is not the answer

“It is very irresponsible for Kanu to say there will be no election in Anambra State in November. He should be arrested and detained. There is a limit to their agitation and I am happy that the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo has condemned them.

“And those agitating for secession do not know the implications. Kanu and his group are saying they have drawn a map which runs from Benue to the South-South, including Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta, that will not happen.”