Mark: Senators who became Governors have not moved forward but backward

Speaking on Tuesday June 3, Mark said senators who were sworn in on May 29 as governors did not deserve to be congratulated because they did not take any step forward but backward.

The President of the Senate of Nigeria, David Mark, made the remark during plenary after a motion by the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari and urging his colleagues to congratulate their fellow senators who contested and won governorship elections on April 11 and were simultaneously sworn in on Friday.

''For our colleagues who have gone to become governor, my position is different. I think going from the Senate to becoming a governor is not a movement forward but a movement backward. Well, if you decide to move backward to sacrifice to work for your people, then we should also congratulate them. But I think from the Senate we should look upwards, but in spite of that, some of our colleagues have gone to the states to assist in bringing development to their states, so I congratulate them also,'' Mark said.

Ndoma-Egba had in his motion, said the Senate noted ''the successful inauguration of our colleagues in the National Assembly as governors in their respective states: Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto State; Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State; Senator Ben Ayade, Governor of Cross River State; Senator Bindo Jubrilla, Governor of Adamawa State; Senator Abubakar Bagudu, Governor of Kebbi State and Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Governor of Enugu State.''