Outgoing Senate President, David Mark, Thursday,
disclosed that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
will not contest the Senate presidency with the
ruling All Progressives Congress.
Mark, who has been leading the Upper Chamber of
the national assembly since the last eight years,
said the contest for presiding officers in the 8th
Senate was for senators-elect under the umbrella
of the APC only.
The senator, who represents Benue Zone C, made
this disclosure while responding to a campaign
carried out on the floor of the Senate by the
outgoing Minority Leader, Senator George Akume,
seeking his (Mark) support for his ambition to
become the next deputy senate president.
Akume, who lauded the outgoing senate president’s
matchless qualities, had publicly asked that he be
supported, given that they were not just brothers
but from the same Benue State.
Akume asked Mark him to make the people of
Benue proud by supporting and helping to actualize
the aspiration of Senator Ahmad Lawan as Senate
President and himself as the Deputy Senate
President respectively in the 8th Senate.
In his response, Mark said: “Finally, because
Senator Akume also thanked me, let me thank him
and remind him that we are in PDP and election of
any coming member is the matter for APC not for PDP"

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/04/pdp-wont-contest-senate-presidency-with-apc-david-mark/

Ok

.I believe this recent declaration by PDP may be because most of their senators elect,may have taking sides with either lawan or saraki,and as such it will be very difficult for them to get required number of PDP senators to emerge both as Senate president and deputy respectively.

Amu coming