My re-election’ll emancipate Idoma people from oppression –Mark

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Former Senate President, David Mark, has appealed to the people of Benue South Senatorial District, to see the forthcoming rerun election in the state as a necessary challenge to emancipate the Idoma nation from oppression.

Mark, according to a statement on Friday by his media assistant, Paul Mumeh, stated this in Otukpo, Benue State, when his people hosted him to a reception following the annulment of his election by the Appeal Court.

The statement explained that Mark visited home for the first time after the Appeal Tribunal annulled his election.

Mark expressed reservations about the Appeal Tribunal verdict but expressed confidence that another opportunity had presented itself with the forthcoming rerun to prove that he won the March 28, 2015 election.

He urged his constituents to be calm and law-abiding in their approach to the forthcoming rerun.

He said, “I know that my people of Benue South are angry about the Appeal Tribunal judgement. But be calm and resolve to translate this anger into good conduct and massive vote for me in the forthcoming rerun election.

“See this forthcoming rerun polls as a challenge for our emancipation. We must not allow external forces to dictate our political destiny.

“We won the election clearly. We will win again. These are trying times, but history will judge because the mandate of the people cannot be compromised under any circumstances.

“We must also be vigilant against external forces that are bent on capitalising on the situation to divide us and weaken our collective resolve. But I know their attempts will fail because only the Idoma man can decide his future and destiny.

“We know ourselves and we know where to go when the time comes. Those who want to infiltrate our ranks should by now know that Benue South is totally a PDP home and there is no room for intruders.”

Mark added that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, produced a senator, four members of House of Representatives and 10 out of the members of the State House of Assembly in the last election held in the state.

He, therefore, wondered how any other party would have a space in the proposed rerun poll.

The Chairman of the PDP in the state, Dr. Emmanuel Agbor; former Interior Minister, Abba Moro and scores of political leaders in the state, according to the statement, also attended the event.

Source: Punch