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February 12, 2015 by Sunday Aborisade, Abuja 12 Comments

The spokesman for the All Progressives Congress members in the senate, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, on Thursday, denied alleging that Senate President, David Mark, secretly met with senators seeking their support for the extension of President Goodluck Jonathans tenure beyond May 29, 2015.

Rather, Ojudu, who issued a statement in Abuja said he merely observed while making a speech at an event that Marks statement which stressed the need to win the insurgency war first before talking about the election, made him to believe that the elections would be postponed.

He said,My attention has been drawn to a report in ThisDay newspaper that quoted me to have said that the Senate President Senator David Mark called Senators to a meeting to request their support for the extension of the regimes tenure.

I never said that. What I said was that when we came back from last years summer break the president gave a speech where he said, left to him the defeat of Boko Haram should be the nations priority now and not an election.

And I said from that moment on I began to feel that the elections as fixed for February may not hold since the nation may not have overcome Boko Haram by then.

This was the only time I mentioned Mark in the close to 30 minutes speech that I gave. I called the reporter Mr Gboyega Adesanmi to complain about this earlytodayat about 5.00amand he promised to make amends.

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Mark never met senators on tenure elongation Ojudu