A former President of the Senate and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator David Mark, has called on the political stakeholders and people in the core north to support his presidential ambition so as to reciprocate the same supports they have got from the North Central zone (Middle Belt) in times past.
Mark made the call on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja shortly after meeting with PDP delegates from Kogi State to solicit their supports ahead of the party’s presidential primaries.
He said his presidential ambition was not to serve any section of Nigeria but the entire country irrespective of the geopolitical zone.
“I think the core North should support us because we also have supported the core North. It is a give and take thing and we are talking about Nigeria; we are not talking about a section of this country.
“If I don’t have a national support, to be honest with you, I would not want to be a president of this country. I want to be president of a united and indivisible country called Nigeria. Call it core north, core south or core whatever, wherever they are, let them support me because we too have also supported them”, he said.
On the issue of consensus candidate, Mark said that was up to the aspirants and the party to decide, adding, that “Whatever we do, the most important thing is that whoever emerges should emerge through a process that is fair, transparent and credible whether it is by consensus or by primaries”.
Senator Mark pledged to bring a lot of difference to bear in the governance of the country that would impact positively on the lives of the ordinary people in the society.
“I will do so many things differently. When we put our processes in place, the woman who is selling groundnuts by the roadside will feel the impact.
He said improvement in the economy should not be based on mere statistical indices but the actual impacts on the common man.
“It is not by mere statistics or indices that we churn out. We want the ordinary people in the streets to feel the impact of the economy in their lives. We have young men and women who are neck dip into research and understand the economy of this country”, he said.
The aspirant had earlier appealed to PDP delegates from Kogi State to give him their supports, assuring never to let the people down if given the mandate eventually.
Responding, the Kogi State chairman of PDP, Engr Sam Ohuotu assured Mark and his campaign team of their supports.
Mark was at the PDP Secretariat in company of Senator Tunde Ogbeha, former Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro and a host of others in his campaign trail.
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