@ sexyella
i quite agree. how do u propose we set the ball in motion?

We need a Revolution In Nigeria,and unless we wake up and fight for our rights, The Old Thieves' ll continue taking Nigerians for a Ride,

interesting,

when Atiku was fight evil OBJ, how many of you speak up??

Na you want revolution. You have a long wait!!!!

Fuel + VAT increase has just started,

and u think Atiku fighting OBJ is equal to revolution? amazing

Find out who is going to lead your revolution now??

Yaradua:  

David Mark:  

Ribadu:  

El Rufai:  

see nobody want to be opposition; so your revolution is dead on arrival!

He will soon be kicked out

only in Nigeria:

But Senate President David Mark will not benefit from the loan or maintenance allowance because he is to have eight official cars including two for personal use, two as pilot cars, and one each for protocol, ambulance, security, and the press.

Pls, friends i can't imagine the Nigerian's Leaders still dance to the tune of so called Godfatherism. The past president man still toping Ya'dua list of apointment, Friends on Nairaland lets pls lets gets wisdom, Nigerial is dying from the hands of Godfartherism.

Pls, friends i can't imagine the Nigerian's Leaders still dance to the tune of  so called Godfatherism. The past president man still toping Ya'dua list of appointment, Friends on Nairaland lets pls, lets gets wisdom, Nigeria is dying from the hands of Godfartherism.

what else do we say?afterall "the masses have their say while the politicians have their way"

David Mark is senate president. suddenly OBJ has the senate in his pocket. how sad,

People change oh.U never can tell


Hope he changes

All have have to say is that David Mark is a bastard theif, i have been to his GOLF COURSE IN DUBLIN and his daughter is the director, who i personnally met.

He loves golf so much; he bought an entire golf course in a foreign country with our money. That is his own idea of contributing to the development of his country??

Am really gutted, he's our new senate president. I hope God will fight him thorougly before the end of this year. I believe God is at work, for making him senate president, so as to expose him to all we Nigerians.

slaykay07:

All have have to say is that David Mark is a bastard theif, i have been to his GOLF COURSE IN DUBLIN and his daughter is the director, who i personnally met.

He loves golf so much; he bought an entire golf course in a foreign country with our money. That is his own idea of contributing to the development of his country??

Am really gutted, he's our new senate president. I hope God will fight him thorougly before the end of this year. I believe God is at work, for making him senate president, so as to expose him to all we Nigerians.

Really? And pray tell what is this daughter called? it's amazing how much rubbish people spout based on unsubstantiated rumours they have heard elsewhere. If you do not agree with his appointment, at least make your objections factual and not some baseless rumour about a golf course!

IBB asked Yar Adua to drop him cos he is Obasanjos loyalist and he wont want the Country to go forward


I read am for one 9ja newspaper online oh so make people no crucify me.

Hi Peeps, read this report on David Mark culled from sharareporters.com:


David Mark- Nigeria’s Senate president is a Belizean citizen

Last View on Sun 17th June, 2007
Last Modified on Mon 11th June, 2007 8:22:58 pm
Author: Admin Sahara


David Mark- Nigeria’s Senate president is a Belizean citizen

Investigations by Saharareporters have uncovered questionable deals involving David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark, a retired army general who was on June 5, 2007 chosen as President of the Nigerian Senate. Mark’s election to head the upper legislative chamber made him the third most powerful Nigeria in the current political order.

His election has put him firmly in the spotlight. Apart from his inexplicable accumulation of wealth while holding political positions in General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime, Mark’s apparent renunciation of his Nigerian citizenship has also come to light.

Mark’s elevation as legislative leader was preceded by a swirl of controversy. Given his shady record in public office, many critics within and outside the Senate had questioned his suitability for the exalted office of Senate President. No stranger to controversy, Mark received a boost from former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The ex-president, who shares with Mark a military background as well as corrupt self-enrichment and polygamous marriages, had handpicked the Senate President for the job.

As Nigeria’s Minister for Communications in the 1980s, David Mark acquired a reputation for speaking in a gruff manner. His most notorious gaffe was a statement that telephones were not meant for poor Nigerians. The statement was in response to criticism of the scarcity of telephone lines as well as their high cost.

Mark was then at the peak of a flourishing military career that saw him amass an incredible personal wealth that would later define his life as a member of Nigeria’s most corrupt military elite that ran the nation with repressive zeal from the early 1980s till mid-1990s.

Shortly after his swearing in as Senate President, a group of senators led by Smart Adeyemi, a freewheeling ex-president of the Nigerian Union Of Journalist (NUJ), addressed a bizarre press conference ostensibly to defend Mark. The senators claimed that unnamed persons allegedly engaged in a smear campaign against the Senate President were targeting David Mark for impeachment.

Saharareporters was the only publication that had earlier reported that the new Senate President was a fraudster and had amassed huge assets, most of it stashed away in banks and investments outside of Nigeria. Mr. Smart Adeyemi, who was accompanied by former President Obasanjo’s daughter, Iyabo Bello-Obasanjo and three others, did not address a single issue raised in our earlier reports.


Given what Saharareporters has been able to uncover since, it seems clear that the senators’ pre-emptive alarm was an attempt to cast doubt on our past and subsequent disclosures. Undeterred, Saharareporters conducted a thorough background check on the Senate President, unearthing a ton of information on his questionable wealth, lies, perjuries, adulterous lifestyle and apparent disregard for the principles of transparency and accountability.

A corrupt Life:

The first of the deals that catapulted David Mark into questionable wealth came from a $77 million “telecommunications deal” which he brokered while he was Communications Minister under General Babangida. The gist was that Mark procured aircrafts for the nation’s telephone company- NITEL- at highly inflated prices. Mark made an instant profit of $70 million which he shared with President Ibrahim Babangida in accounts opened in Jersey and Cayman Islands. From this single deal, David Mark had set aside the sum of £6 million in a “trust” for his children as well as invested in real estate for his numerous wives and children in the UK and Ireland. In a remarkable, if curious, decision, Mark also invested the sum of £5.9 pounds in the 18-hole St. Margaret’s Golf Club near Dublin, just a five- minute drive from the International Airport in Dublin, Ireland and also in an unnamed business in Northern Ireland which officially employed him while he was in the UK on exile.

He also bought a private house worth £2.5 million pounds on Kingston upon the Thames River in London.

In addition, David Mark hired a personal assistant in England to help manage his businesses in London and Ireland. He lived a life of legendary luxury, arranging for most of his kids to be born in the UK, Switzerland and other Western European nations. From kindergarten to college, most of his children also attended schools in Europe or in some of England’s highbrow institutions of learning.
According to records available to Saharareporters, David Mark has married six times, his last marriage being in Ghana in 1995 where he retains a massive investment of funds looted from Nigeria. His sixth wife also lives in London with his children. Apart from Ghana, David Mark also has investments in the Caribbean and the US and maintains hefty bank accounts in Switzerland, Cayman Islands and Jersey.

Nationality:

David Mark has always identified with reactionary elements and causes in Nigeria, thus calling to question his belief in or love for Nigeria. He was one of the key figures who prevailed on Babangida to annul the elections of June 12, 1993. That annulment scuttled Nigeria’s effort to embark on a credible democratic path. Mark and General Dogonyaro were among then serving officers who threatened to kill the president-elect, Chief M. K.O Abiola, if the military head handed over power to him.

In 2006, Mark emerged as an arrowhead of senators who supported a controversial constitutional amendment that would have seen President Obasanjo run for a third-term in office. The campaign was marked by massive corruption. The presidency handed fifty million naira to each senator who agreed to vote for the reprehensible amendment. Though the measure was defeated in the National Assembly, David Mark never gave up. He was quoted as saying that only retired military officers should be voted to power in Nigeria saying that "A sergeant in the army is better than a graduate".

Nowhere is David Mark’s unpatriotic actions more revealed than in his decision to abandon his Nigerian citizenship. Records available to Saharareporters indicate that, in 1996, Mark took up Belizean citizenship when his investments in that small island nation were threatened. Mark and his now estranged wife, Victoria Preye, as well as two of their younger kids still carry Belizean passports.

Public Officer with personal interest:

Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Bureau forbids public officers maintaining bank accounts abroad. Yet, David Mark has consistently breached this important requirement. Throughout his membership in the Senate, Mark has operated various bank accounts in the UK and elsewhere. His man of business in Ireland has a construction company component which pays him £45,000 per annum. Since he became the senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, official records in the UK show that David Mark traveled to the UK at least once every six weeks to cater to his private business interests. Most times, his trips and expenses were paid from the coffers of the National Assembly where he was a chairman of the Senate Committee for Banking and Commerce and a member of the Committees for Internal Affairs, African Co-operation, and National Security and Police.

In another document obtained by Saharareporters, David Mark was quoted admitting to breaching Nigeria’s code of conduct ethics. “I do come to England as often as I can, either on official business as a senator or on private visits to see my family, the majority of whom are studying here,” he said.

Further, he disclosed an earned income abroad of £45,000 a year, whilst his Nigerian income as a senator was put at £1,636 per year, clearly a lie to British authorities. His disclosure demonstrated that he operated his English bank accounts throughout the period. His sixth wife and their children lived exclusively in a house provided by him in London. David Mark spent a total of 47 days in the UK, making nine trips in all. That indicated that his affairs and interests within the UK necessitated a visit approximately every six weeks, most of the trips paid for by the National Assembly.

Nasty Divorce from Victoria Preye, his 5th wife:

The story of David Mark’s divorce has become a popular case study of sorts amongst students and practitioners of immigration law in the UK and elsewhere because of the volume of lies, concoctions and hideousness with which he tried to con his estranged wife away from her entitlements, Court documents indicate that David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark and Victoria Preye solemnized their polygamous marriage according to native law and custom in 1979. Mark was at the time married to three other women.

Victoria Preye came to London in 1990 and has not returned to Nigeria since 1993. During the regime of General Sani Abacha, David Mark was forced into exile between 1993 to 1998. During this time, he obtained a work permit enabling him to reside in the UK as an employee of a construction company owned by him which paid him £40,000 per annum. His wife was subsequently included on the permit, giving her leave to remain in England until April 1998. Mark was granted indefinite leave to remain after the expiry of the work permit in 1998, but his wife did not apply as she was in Florida for a bible course, and her husband did not tell her about the application for indefinite leave to remain.

i was not aware that taking citizenship of another country equated to abandoning your own, especially since Nigeria allows dual nationality. I also think that perhaps you guys give David Mark a bit too much credit-he made a profit of £70 million and he only put £6 million in a trust for his children?

lexi21 or whatever you're called.

If you think i was lying about being to his golf course, why don't you let me buy you a ticket on ryanair to visit dublin, so we can both take a trip to the course.

I want to believe you are either his family or your family is a David mark sycophant.

When you're ready let me know, so as to buy your broke arse an airline ticket to dublin.

slaykay07:

lexi21 or whatever you're called.

If you think i was lying about being to his golf course, why don't you let me buy you a ticket on ryanair to visit dublin, so we can both take a trip to the course.

I want to believe you are either his family or your family is a David mark sycophant.

When you're ready let me know, so as to buy your broke arse an airline ticket to dublin.

I made a comment asking if you could give factual evidence for the statements that you had made and all you can do is respond by insulting me and making allusions as to my financial status? All I asked was can you give us the name of this daughter? You are making claims beyond him just having a golf course-you stated you knew his daughter and she was a director of this golf course and I asked you to verify this. Why the sudden aggression towards me? And by your statement you imply that anyone in David Mark's family has no right to post on this forum? I will not even dignify your questions regarding what my background may be with a reply. Please let's be objective and intelligent here!!

DAVID MARK IS CORRUPT

No need to argue

BUT HES YOUR SENATE PRESIDENT.

IT WOULD GO DOWN IN HISTORY.

WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS?. HMM,,, IT SEEMS X-BOY MARK IS SMART.

I HEARD HE'S IDOMA BY TRIBE.

He wld be exposed in no time

his best man for the job yaradua is a toy

DAVID MARK IS CORRUPT No need to argue.
Why should we not argue o i wonder maybe it is because you are corrupt not him 9ja4eva

First, who is not corrupt among the cows?

So far, I'm very impressed with the man. I think he's the right pick for the position and he's doing a great job.

Keep in mind that in the city of blind folks, the man with one eye is always the king.

Like him or hate him, David Mark is polished, focused and full of experience.

big b1 it seems you are on the right course finally someone that has brains

well almost all the senators , governors and house of reps are all currupt , but if you look at it david mark as well as the likes of senator john shagaya deserve to be senate president in nigeria reasons for this are:

brig-gen/senator david mark who like his father (whom was a civil servant) has served nigeria. nobody apart from the likes of  john shagaya, tanko ayuba who are now senators have served nigeria as government servants so not only do they have political experience they have government experience.

you see in the areas where those generals are from the people there don't contest with them , if you go to langtang they all agree that its people who have served the govt that should represent them! same in otukpo in benue! same in the area that tanko ayuba comes from in kano.

however in the south its not the same, southerners are more likely to want to object to a retired general or a retired civil servant representing them partly because southerners are more educated , more exposed, more outspoken and more oppositional hence the niger delta conflict, and as for yoruba people they can never be united nor are they straight forward, the igbo man is too individualistic and the niger delta man is just a pure radical!

they don't have hard core democratic radicals like wole shoyinka or uwazurueke in the north!

Its a similar situation in america the southerners dont contest with the ex govt leaders , but in the noth the people are more more educated, exposed and elightened and so therefore are more oppositional.

buhari can tell all northerners to boycott all purshases of omo detergent or any brnad of product and 90% of the people there will follow his instruction , but in the southern part of nigeria if obasanjo should try such a thing nobody will listen or obey him!

Davids mark personal family life has nothing to do with his professional or political life . same with IBB he may be a bisexual but he knows his army, military and political aspects very well. try to be objective and not subjective! so his professional governance and political careers are excellent he scores 99% or of 100% and so far his tenue deserves a pass mark compared to his predecessors!

,this is 2009, i think david Mark as done really well sofar, we should keep praying for Nigeria.

@bushgirl: i think you got it right. unfortunately, there isn't much choice left in the country, but david mark has handled his duties professionally and competently. he's a smooth operator and deserves a lot of credits from all angles.

9ja4eva i laugh when i read your post

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858729563/

Authority stealing pass armed robbery,david mark is more dangerous than ten million armed robbers in nigeria.Most nigerians have seven seconds memory,they tend to quickly forget they are ruled by thieves