Senate President (Mark) ready to support National Conference

Senate President, Senator David Mark, said on Tuesday that the National Assembly would support the convocation of a conference of Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities to discuss the peculiarities of the Nigerian nation.

Mark, who stated this in an address he read to welcome his colleagues on their resumption from the annual recess, said that such a conference should have a few no go areas including the dismemberment of the federation.



He said that any conference called to discuss the differences within the ethnic configuration of the Nigerian nation would be seen as operating in line with the dictates of the Nigerian Constitution.

Mark said that the conference should also not be tagged as sovereign so as not to conflict with the letters of the constitution.

He said: “We live in very precarious times, and in a world increasingly made fluid and toxic by strange ideologies and violent tendencies, all of which presently conspire to question the very idea of the nation state.
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