ELDER statesman & Chairman of The Patriots, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has described as gratuitous, comments attributed to leader of the South-South Assembly, Chief Edwin Clark referring to him as a person "camouflaging (his) political ideas & ambition with intellectualism "& an "unpatriotic saboteur of the democratic process."
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The legal icon, in a statement noted that he served under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida & not Sani Abacha, adding that there was nothing unpatriotic or undemocratic in his advice to President Goodluck Jonathan not to contest the 2015 election & focus his attention on the nobler task of leading Nigeria out of danger.
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He said: "I only advised that the President, in exercising his God-given will & democratic/constitutional right, should not seek re election in 2015, in order to be able, unconstrained by political interests, forces & considerations, to pursue the nobler object of leading Nigeria, as one united people, out of the present quagmire in which it finds itself.