Nothing Good Will Come From David Mark-Led ADC – Wike …Says Fmr. Senate President Lacks Capacity

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, on Monday 4, 2025, wrote off, the opposition Coalition platform, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, under the leadership of Senator David Mark, a former Senate President.

At his routine media briefing in Abuja, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State , insisted that the retired Army General lacks the capacity ,and dedication to offer a meaningful leadership to  the nascent opposition party.

The Source reports that following the formal unveiling of the ADC on July 2, 2025, as the official platform for the emerging opposition Coalition, Senator Mark ,and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola were named its interim National Chairman and National Secretary respectively.

But Wike, on Monday, informed that he and other Peoples Democratic Party PDP stakeholders resisted pressure to make Senator Mark the National Chairman of PDP, because they were sceptical about his capabilities in steering the ship.

“Let me tell you something, when we started having issues   with the position of National Chairman from the North Central region of the country, there were pressures for David Mark to be the National Chairman of the party. But we resisted”, Wike noted

According to the FCT Minister, they refused to make Mark the National Chairman of the PDP because there were a general consensus on the part of the major stakeholders that there was nothing good that he was going to bring on board.

“Holding a position is not the same thing as making impact with the position. In the first place, what impact did Mark make as the Senate President of the Nigerian Senate for several years?

“There are nothing tangible to hold as his contributions to national development during his tenure as Senate President. So, I will rather  support, a rookie with genuine reformist intentions than cast my lot for a career politician with long a history of political office ,but with little or no impact.

“He was a Senate President under the PDP for eight years. What were his achievements? What improved under his leadership?

“I have told you, I would rather go for somebody who has not held any positions; who has come to tell me that “look, I am doing this because I want to help with change to achieve this and that.

“I will not listen to anybody who has been in power for years, who has refused to contribute anything to the development of the country, and now you come to tell me stories such as, “we need to rescue the country and all that”, Wike stated.

Wike further expressed serious doubts about the sincerity of those behind the ADC in working for the people of Nigeria.

According to him, there is no iota of sincerity of purpose on the part of the progenitors of the opposition coalition.”