Nigerian Poet JP Clark Used His Works As Tool For Nation Building – Goodluck Jonathan

FORMER President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has described the renowned poet and playwright, Professor John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo who died on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, as a Nigerian who used his literary works as a tool for Nation building and National reconciliation.

In a tribute to the late Professor JP Clark, former President Jonathan said that he was a ‘witness of truth’, an advocate of justice whose commitment to Nigeria’s unity and progress was at the centre of his art and craft.

The former President in a letter to the Clark-Bekederemo Family through the former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Elder Edwin Klagbodo Clark, said that the late dramatist, Poet and Playwright will be greatly missed for his creativity, patriotism and wisdom, adding that his legacies of creativity, fact, and truth will continue to define his time while he lived with us.

The letter which was made available to