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Senate President, David Mark has denied attempting to influence the election Petition Tribunal sitting over the petition challenging his election in Benue State, describing controversial Senator Joseph Waku who made the allegation as a dehydrated character without a focus.
•Says he's a liar suffering from hallucination
Senate President, David Mark has denied attempting to influence the election Petition Tribunal sitting over the petition challenging his election in Benue State, describing controversial Senator Joseph Waku who made the allegation as a dehydrated character without a focus.
The Senate President was reacting to a report in an Abuja-based newspaper in which Senator Waku, was reported to have accused the Senate President of 'merely playing for time by delaying the judgement of the Benue State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi."
Senator Waku who is the Vice-Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum and from the same Benue State as the Senate President also stated in the report that Senator Mark was employing delay tactics to enable him emerge as the Acting President, in the event of cancellation of President Umaru Yar'Adua's election by the presidential election petition tribunal.
Responding, however, the Senate President said he could not have thought of influencing the decision of the tribunal handling the petition against his election or any other tribunal for that matter saying Senator Waku was just hallucinating.
In the reaction signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publications to the Senate President, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the allegations by Senator Waku was an hallucination that exists only in the trivial and jaundiced mind of a dehydrating Waku.
'We would have ignored Waku and his co-travellers given their penchant for lies and falsehood but for the fact that his allegation touched on a very sensitive issue. The president of the Senate has no influence whatsoever in the matters before the Benue tribunal or any other tribunal currently sitting over electoral matters.
'We would not waste precious time engaging a nebulous character who also suffers from verbal diarrhoea because every right thinking Nigerian knows that no petitioner or respondent has influence on his case before the tribunal," Senator Mark responded.
He described Waku's submission as just a manifestation of his scarce educational background and emptiness of reasoning. 'In our clime, politics is a leveler, otherwise, the likes of Waku is neither a fit or proper person to be addressed as a senator."
The Senate President stated that no amount of antics, mudslinging, mischief or blackmail orchestrated by Senator Waku and his financiers would strain the existing cordial working relationship between the executive and the legislature which he has vowed to uphold.