{"id":72028,"date":"2025-08-04T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72028"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:25:41","slug":"benue-group-rejects-david-marks-coalition-for-2027-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/04\/benue-group-rejects-david-marks-coalition-for-2027-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue Group Rejects David Mark\u2019s \u2018Coalition for 2027\u2019 Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A political pressure group, Benue Concerned Democrats (BCD), has rejected what it described as a plot by former Senate President, Senator David Mark, to hijack the African Democratic Congress (ADC), through a purported \u201cCoalition for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, BCD Convener, Arc Idoha Audu Anuga, dismissed the coalition as \u201crecycled opportunism\u201d aimed at forcing Mark back into relevance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians must not forget who David Mark truly is. He is no democrat,\u201d Anuga said, alleging that Mark\u2019s political history is rooted in what he described as \u201ca failed and authoritarian playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He referenced Mark\u2019s past support for the Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), which opposed the June 12 mandate of Chief MKO Abiola.<\/p>\n<p>Anuga also cited Mark\u2019s controversial election victory over Alhaji Usman Abubakar, describing it as \u201cone of the worst electoral daylight robberies in Benue history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on Mark\u2019s tenure as Senate President, he criticized it as \u201c16 years of redundant leadership,\u201d labeling the Senate under Mark as a \u201crubber stamp\u201d and \u201carguably the worst-performing in Nigeria\u2019s democratic experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further accused the former Senate President of leaving Benue South with \u201cno federal projects, no legacy, not even a sustainable youth empowerment programme,\u201d saying the people were left with \u201cwasted years and dashed hopes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warning the ADC to distance itself from Mark and his allies, the group claimed the \u201csame old Mark\u201d is backed by \u201ca gang of expired political jobbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not fight democratic decay by recycling those who contributed to it,\u201d Anuga stated, alleging that Mark is marked by \u201cdictatorial tendencies, habitual abuse of office, and the harassment of opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group concluded by declaring, \u201cWe, the Benue Concerned Democrats, reject David Mark\u2019s attempted reincarnation in whatever form. Nigerians deserve a clean break from yesterday\u2019s men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David A political pressure group, Benue Concerned Democrats (BCD), has rejected what it described as a plot by former Senate President, Senator David Mark, to hijack the African Democratic Congress (ADC), through a purported \u201cCoalition for 2027.\u201d In a statement on Monday, BCD Convener, Arc Idoha Audu Anuga, dismissed the coalition as \u201crecycled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72030,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72028\/revisions\/72030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}