Former senate president and a current senator, David Mark, has denied reports in some section of the media that he refused to enter the witness box during proceedings at an election petition tribunal in Makurdi, Benue State.
David Mark
Mark said this while reacting to a report in The Nation newspaper described the report as mischievous, “imagination and an embarrassment to the publishers of the Nation newspapers.”
” For the avoidance of doubt, Senator David Mark was not invited to the witness box by the Benue State Election Petition Tribunal in Makurdi through out the proceedings of that day . So the issue of refusal to enter the witness box never arose.
It is therefore unfounded and the figment of the writer’s ( Emma Ujah) imagination and an embarrassment to the publishers of the Nation newspapers.
It is curious and unimaginable that a newspaper like the nation can be reduced to a newsletter of hate driven politicians who would rather ventilate lies and fabrications instead of the sacred facts to an unassuming public,” Mark said in a statement signed by his media aide and made available to Omgdailyupdate.blogspot.com
He added that the senator would not refuse to enter the witness box if the panel so desires to invite him and asked why the newspaper management allow it to be“tools in the hands of mischief makers and become agents of treachery and blackmail.”
“For the record, when Senator Mark appeared at the tribunal, his counsel Ken Ikonne merely announced his presence and he ( Ikonne) proceeded to address the panel. At no point did he or the panel invited Senator Mark to the witness box.
Ikonne there after tendered three documents which were neither contradicted nor objected to by the opponent’s counsel before the Tribunal admitted same as evidence,”the statement said.
He urged media practitioners to abide by the sacred tenets of Journalism and must uphold the truth at all times no matter the level of interest.
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