{"id":12547,"date":"2025-02-18T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:10:54","slug":"niger-delta-forum-leader-edwin-clark-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/niger-delta-forum-leader-edwin-clark-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Delta Forum leader, Edwin Clark is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, leader, Edwin Clark, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that the elder statesman died at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>The former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader\u2019s death was confirmed in a statement by a representative of the family, Prof. C. C. Clark, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-24\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The statement read, \u201cThe Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, wishes to announce the passing of Chief (Dr.) Sen. Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, OFR, CON, on Monday, 17th February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family appreciates your prayers at this time. Other details will be announced later by the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes barely three days after the prominent leader of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Pa <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/02\/14\/afenifere-leader-ayo-adebanjo-is-dead\/\">Ayo Adebanjo, died<\/a> at the age of 96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, leader, Edwin Clark, is dead. DAILY POST gathered that the elder statesman died at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12549,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}