President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has reiterated that the National Assembly would stand and defend only those things that would “engender peace and unity of Nigeria.”
In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Mumeh, Mark said dividends of democracy would be delivered faster if the legislature and the executive arms of government worked in harmony in line with the constitutional mandates for the good of the citizenry.
Speaking at the Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman Initiative empowerment programme in Okene Kogi state yesterday, Mark stressed the need to abhor friction between and among government functionaries so that the electorate could benefit from government programmes and policies.
Apparently referring to the recent security challenges in which thousands of country men and women have gone to the great beyond, Mark pleaded for peaceful coexistence between and among Nigerians, saying “there has to be peace for us to talk about development at any given point. Government alone cannot guarantee peace, it is the cooperation of all us irrespective of political parties that can bring peaceful coexistence.”
In his remarks, Governor Wada Idris of Kogi state praised Senator Abatemi- Usman for the initiative, saying that his efforts had “fully complimented the programmes of government in alleviating the plight of the ordinary citizens.”
