David mark senate president biography president
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At the nation’s helm of affairs where he could easily be identified with his trademark Idoma red and black handwoven cap, the name, David Mark, rang a bell for two decades. But this towering political figure appears to be ‘missing in action’ since he ended histenure as Senate President in 2015, Daily Trust reports.
Before his sojourn at the National Assembly where he held sway as senate president for two consecutive terms of eight years after being a ranking senator for another cumulative eight years and his remaining four exiting years, bringing the number of years he spent at the red chambers to 20, nothing much had been heard from Mark while on exile abroad.
Mark had been retired from the Nigerian Army in 1993 as Brigadier General by the late military head of state, General Sani Abacha. Subsequently, he fled the country on self exile to England. He returned later after the death of his ‘hunter’ (Abacha) in 1998.
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President of the Senate of Nigeria
Highest ranking-official of the Senate of Nigeria
The president of the Nigerian Senate is the presiding officer of the Senate of Nigeria, elected by its membership. The senate president is second in line of succession to the Nigerian presidency, after the vice president of Nigeria. The current president of the Senate is Godswill Akpabio since 13 June 2023.[1][2]
Role
[edit]The senate president is chosen in an indirect election conducted within the senate, amongst the 109 members. The line of succession to the Nigerian presidency goes to the vice president, and then the senate president should both the president and vice president be unable to discharge the powers and duties of office.[3]
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Federation
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[edit]The Senate did not sit during this time.
Second Republic
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David Mark: Bestriding Two Worlds at 76
Paul Mumeh and Law Mefor trace the military and political trajectory of ex-military governor of Niger state and former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, as he marks his 76th birthday.
There is no cure for birth and death, rädda to enjoy the interval – George Santayana
The wise words, “Live your life so that the Preacher won’t have to lie at your funeral,” were displayed in a particular pastor’s office sentinel. The pastor expressed his admiration for the way it would loom large over the heads of people who came to confess yet another transgression, hoping that it would övertyga them to change their ways and begin to act morally upright without him having to persuade them. The man said that the longer he had been a pastor, the more he had come to understand the peculiar theology the sign represented.
It suggests to him, that some people have lived such morally upright lives that preachers don’t need to tell lies at