abdulraheem
This week, the Nigerian newspapers have been full of advertisements congratulating Senator David Mark, on his sixtieth birthday. Even president Umar Yar’Adua was at a cake-cutting ceremony to commemorate the occasion. The grand standing about David Mark’s birthday might make us forget that the gentleman has been declared “not elected” by a competent court, never mind the fact that he has appealed to a higher court. There can be no gain saying the fact that David Mark is living on borrowed time in Nigeria’s Senate. Nigerians will massively celebrate the day he is finally thrown out of the haloed precincts of law-making, as a senator. David Mark is unpopular largely because of his antecedents and statements. He was a rabid defender of Obasanjo’s third term agenda; and it is one of the cruel cronies of Nigeria’s unprincipled politics that a man, who actively fought to entrench dictatorship and did all in his power to subvert democracy, is now the President of Nigeria’s Senate. He was imposed by Obasanjo, as a dividend of the duty he performed for the unpopular third term agenda, and also to be one of the foot soldiers of Obasanjo’s ambitions, in the Yar’Adua dispensation. I am looking forward to the day that Young Alhaji will rightfully claim his seat as senator, so that the usurper’s reign as Senator and Senate President can end. Nigeria deserves to be run by people who work for its interests not those beholden to the agenda of the disgraced, kleptocratic despot, Olusegun Obasanjo. That is where Senator David Mark belong
