http://www.titopeblog.com/2017/10/david-mark-breaks-two-years-silence-in.html

Immediate past President of the Senate, David Mark, on Wednesday, spoke on the floor for the first time in two years and four months.

It was the first time Sen. Mark had spoken on the floor of the Senate since the 8th National Assembly was inaugurated on the 9th of June, 2017.

Mark spoke when his only bill sponsored in two years, was read for the second time. It’s titled “A Bill for an Act to Establish the Federal University of Health Science, Utukpo and ot‎her related matters connected thereto, 2017.”

Unlike others bills read on the floor, Mark only read an abridged version of it. Many lawmakers wanted to speak on the issue, but were restricted by the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided.

Leader of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, while speaking, said in other climes, the bill would not be debated. He urged his colleagues to make provision for the take-off of the university in the 2018 budget.

Lawan said: “This bill reminds me of my days in the opposition. Elsewhere in the world, this bill will not be debated because of the sponsor. For someone who served as the Senate President for eight years is not ordinary. We need to appreciate that fact.

“In the 2018 appropriation year, the Senate should make provision for this institution to take off and provide services to the entire people of Nigeria. This will not only benefit the people of Benue South, but Nigerians.”

Ekweremadu, while concluding, noted: “This bill has enjoyed sufficient support. We must appreciate the sponsor for this opportunity. This bill seeks to create a special university ‎that will cater for the wellbeing of Nigerians. I can see lawmakers who left the chamber, but had to return because of the importance of this bill.”

When Ekweremadu put it to a voice vote that the bill be read for the second time, it got a resounding ‘yes’. No lawmaker voted against it. The bill has been referred to the Senate committee on Tertiary Education.

Mynd44

Good

The only wise man in benue

He should contest for President 2019

Chairman, Association of Senate Observers!

Landlord sorry SENATElord.

Senator David Mark!



Ancient of days in the Nigerian political landscape.
He has been there,
He is there,
He will always be there!


Good a thing the deputy senate president rescued him, otherwise those young bloods in the senate with no respect for elders nor experience would have taken advantage of the occasion to rubbish him especially those APC block heads!

such an abrupt reaction by Law an and Ekweremadu. in their opinion, the bill should be allowed to thrive because of the sponsor but not due to the ingenuity of the bill. overtly mundane thinking. Which means that a bill proposing a specialised university for health sciences would have been turned down if it was sponsored by a first time in the Senate or by anybody other than David Mark.?

Where did we get this crop of myopic leaders sef.

I can feel for David mark, being the Lord and now been lorded can be so humiliating no wonder he has been keeping his cool.

He never thought power would change hands so abruptly.

shameless and unintelligent. He possess these two attributes. But the latter is more dangerous to humanity. Because of his unhealthy quest for relevance and cheap power, a former senate president (for 8 good years) stooped, condescended and descended to being an ordinary floor member and he doesn't even know what self esteem is.

They are all clueless and unintelligent that they think they can't have any life outside politics. I only blame those that keep voting him since 1999.

We must do something drastic unless we perish by the hands of these second colonial masters.