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David Mark Denies Spearheading Election Postponement

Senate President David Mark has refuted an allegation by Babafemi Ojodu, an All Progressive Congress, APC, member of the Senate, that he was the first person to call for postponement of this year’s elections.

Ojudu said that Mark made the call last year on the floor of the Senate



Expressing his dismay, the Senate President said in a statement that he never called for the delay of the polls and would never do such.

“I have neither canvassed the postponement or deferment of 2015 election nor has my body language ever suggested that. I am shocked that distinguished Senator Ojudu could descend to this level of mischief and blackmail for reasons that I am yet to understand,” the statement read.




     

     

    Cautioning Ojodu, Mark said notwithstanding their political affiliations, there is need for politicians to maintain restraint for the sake of peace and unity”


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    The Senate President recalled: “when the issue of insurgency came to the floor of the Senate and a distinguished senator introduced the issue of election I had cautioned that the issue before the Senate had nothing to do with election and that the issue before us in the Senate was insurgency and terrorism.”

    In September 2014, it was reported in the media that the Senate President had called for the postponement of elections on the floor of the Senate, something he immediately denied through a media statement issued by Paul Mumeh, his media aide.

     

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