Earlyface

ABUJA — IT was revealed,
yesterday, that the alleged plot by
the aggrieved Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, senators
to commence impeachment
move against the Senate
President, David Mark was not
going to succeed as Mark was
said to have made frantic efforts
to ensure that many of his
colleagues returned in 2015 but
was not successful.
Some of the senators that lost
their re-election bid had blamed
their woes on the Senate
President, claiming that he did
not do much to protect them
when the party structures were
handed over to the state
governors by the National
Working Committee, NWC, of PDP.
But a senator close to the Senate
President said that Mark did all
he could, including going to
some of the state governors to
plead for his colleagues to be
given the tickets to return which
the governors rejected.
The senator said it was unfair for
any senator that failed to clinch
the ticket to now put the blame
on the Senate President, who he
said, did much to protect his
colleagues.
Speaking on the condition of
anonymity, the senator said,
“some of the senators who may
be up-in-arms against the Senate
President are not being fair to
him.
“If those who are angry for
failing to survive at the primaries
are truthful to themselves, they
should also disclose how the
Senate President took time off
preparation for his own primary
election to plead the cases of
most of the senators both at the
PDP headquarters and at The
Presidency.
“It is on record that the Senate
President personally led some of
the interventionists meetings
held both at the party level and at
the Presidency.
“It is also on record that the
Senate President spoke to most
of the PDP governors to
accommodate the senators in
their states at the primaries.
He said though the reach of the
Senate President was wide, “the
Senate President did not just sit
idly by without mounting the
necessary lobby for the return of
most senators.”
He specifically explained that in
the case of a particular senator
from South South, “the Senate
President took him to the party
headquarters, the Senate
President also took him to The
Presidency and spoke several
times with his governor and
even sent a close friend of the
governor to plead with him to
allow the senator to return, but
his governor was adamant in
giving his seat to another
person.”
Besides, he stated that in some
cases, the Senate President was
holding meetings with some of
the governors to persuade them,
but most of them maintained
hard position over the matter.
He noted that in the case of
another senator from the South
East, “the Senate President took
steps to ensure his return in
2015, but he insisted on going
ahead with his governorship
ambition even when it was
obvious that the coast may not
be clear for him.”
The source also cited the case of
another senator from Bayelsa
State whose case Mark took to
The Presidency and to the party
headquarters.
“It is not fair for some people to
attempt to make anybody scape-
goat in this matter. If anything,
anybody who is aggrieved over
the conduct of the PDP primaries
should take their fight to their
governors.”
He said that it was clear for the
majority of the senators that the
Senate President did his best for
his colleagues and was still
making efforts to see the
possibility of having more
senators pick the party’s tickets.