Despite David Mark's seeming popularity in Benue state, Idoma youths from the state have attacked the former senate president for not doing much for the people.
David Mark
Youths from the Benue South Senatorial District, otherwise known as Benue Zone C, have blasted former Senate President, Senator David Mark stating he ‘rented’ a crowd to welcome him back to the state and that the crowd would not save him during the rerun election next year.
Mark returned to his ancestral home for the first time since the Appellate Court sacked him from the Senate. He was welcomed by several people and warned them against allowing outsiders to infiltrate their midst.
However, Daily Post reports that, reacting to the development, the youth group on the platform of Idoma Youth Parliament said the much publicised grand reception of David Mark which witnessed a great crowd was a fraud in itself as most of the people were not natives of the senatorial district but a hired crowd from neighbouring areas and mostly from Tiv communities.
The group’s Speaker, Comrade Mary Oloja in a statement issued on Friday said it was embarrassing that Senator Mark had decided to abandon his helicopter for the first time because he needed the people to vote him.
She said the people of Benue South Senatorial District had outgrown his promises of emancipation and creation of Apa state as well as federal presence, as these had been discovered to be tricks used to obtain power and abandon them till another four years.
The statement said, “Is it not morally wrong for David Mark to abandon his helicopter and for the first time ply the same roads he refused to repair just because he wants to show humility and gain our votes? The Idoma Youths are wiser today, we will not allow anyone bamboozle us with these theatrics.”