Posted on: 04:27 Tue, 16 Feb 2016



Alleged plots by the All Progressive
Congress chieftains in Benue state to
assassinate former Senate President,
Senator David Mark, ahead of the
Saturday’s rerun election for Benue
South has been uncovered.

In a statement by Paul Mumeh, the
media aide to Senator David Mark,
former senate president has alleged
a plot by the deputy governor of
Benue State, Benson Abounu, and
some chieftains of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to
assassinate him ahead of
Saturday’s rerun in the southern
senatorial district.

According to the statement which
was released on Monday, David
Mark said the APC candidate for
the election, Daniel Onjeh, through
his campaign Director, Okpokwu
Ogenyi, in connivance with the
deputy governor, had allegedly
hired the services of cultists to
unleash terror in the district and in
the process target him (Mark) for
elimination.

He further stated that the cultists
allegedly hired for the
assassination include the notorious
supreme Vikings squad from Jos,
Plateau State and the dreaded Black
Axe in Makurdi, the Benue State
capital.

It also said David Mark who is
running on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
had already alerted the Inspector
General of Police, Solomon Arase,
of the plot by the APC stalwarts in
the state to assassinate him.

In a petition to the IGP signed by
his counsel, Ken Ikonne, the
statement said, the former senate
president alleged that Mr. Ogenyi
was the arrowhead of the plot.

“It is obvious that Ogenyi knows
more about the assassination plot
than he has revealed,” the
petition said.

“Our client has therefore
instructed us to petition you( IGP)
to as a matter of urgency
apprehend and interrogate
Ogenyi to throw more light on the
details of this grave assassination
plot before he and his associates
carry out the dastardly plot.

“Only yesterday, police said to be
attached to the State Deputy
Governor Benson Abounu fired
several gun shots into the family
house of Senator Mark in Otukpo.
No reason was given for the
unprovoked attack and no arrest
has been made,” the petition
stated in part.

The petition also said a couple of
weeks ago, the chairman of the APC
in the state, Abbah Yaro, was
quoted as saying “if Senator Mark
wants, let him win the election in
seven out of the nine local
government areas but no returning
officer born of a woman will dare
declare him.”