MAKURDI – Former Senate President, Senator David Mark has
cautioned external forces and interests to steer clear of the forthcoming Benue
South senatorial district rerun election or be ready to face resistance from
the people.
Mark also warned that the people would not
also accept any form of manipulation of the process.
Sunday Vanguard recalls that the he Court
of Appeal sitting in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, had weeks back nullified
Mark’s victory and urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
to organise a rerun election in the district within 90 days.
Mark who spoke weekend, when he was
received at a grand reception at the palace of the Ochi’ Idoma, Elias Ikoyi
Obekpa, in Otukpo, Benue state, said he had taken the nullification of his
victory by the appellate court in good faith and was ready for the rerun
election.
The former Senate President said, “it’s the
Idomas who will vote on the day of the election, no one can impose anyone on
us. No one outside Idoma land can manipulate or impose a candidate on my people
in my life time. It will never happen.
“We have advanced so must that no one can
come and dictate to us. Our people will always do that which will uplift our
land and not according to the dictates of anyone from outside.”
Receiving the former Senate President, the
Ochi Idoma who said his subjects had accepted the verdict of the Court of
Appeal urged the people of the area to queue behind the candidate with the
requisite experience, clout and pedigree in the election.
The royal father said further that, “The
way our people came out today to received you clearly shows that they are
solidly behind you.”
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