What did David Mark do for Nigerians as former senate president? Just asking! Senator David Mark travelled to Minna, capital of Niger state, to hold a private meeting with the former military president Ibrahim Babangida.
The meeting lasted for two hours at the Hilltop residence of the former military ruler.
David Mark, a former president of the Senate and current aspirant for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2019 election, has promised to change Nigeria’s economy in two years if elected.
Mark made the promise on Tuesday, September 18, at the PDP secretariat in Lokoja while on a campaign visit to solicit votes of the state delegates to the presidential primaries in October.
The Punch reports that the former Senate president pledged to do many things differently to revamp the economy.
A lot of research had been done on the economy and if given the chance, he would bring them to bear and turn around things, he was quoted as saying and adding that the economic growth in his administration would experience tremendous changes within 700 days.
These changes, he said, would be physical rather than based on paper statistics.
“I will do so many things differently. When we put our processes in, the woman who is selling groundnuts by the roadside will feel the impact.
“It is not by mere statistics or indices that we churn out. We want the ordinary people on the streets to feel the impact of the economy on their lives.
“We have young men and women who are neck dip into research and understand the economy of this country,” he said.
Mark expressed belief that he would be accepted in the core northern part of the country because he had equally worked for candidates from the area and this should now be reciprocated.
“I think the core north should support us because we also have supported the core north. It is a give and take thing and we are talking about Nigeria.
“We are not talking about a section of this country. If I don’t have a national support, to be honest with you, I would not want to be a president of this country.
“I want to be President of a united and indivisible country called Nigeria. Call it core north, core south or core whatever, wherever they are, let them support me because we too have supported them.
“Whatever we do, the most important thing is that whoever emerges should emerge through a process that is fair, transparent and credible; whether it is by consensus or by primaries,” he said.
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