Former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Jerry Agada has pledged his loyalty to former Senate President, Senator David Mark despite dumping PDP for the ruling party, APC.
Agada who stated this in a chat with newsmen in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, said his defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) does not mean that he had dumped Senator Mark.
He noted that his defection from the PDP was occasioned by the decision of his people of Orokam in Ogbadibo Local Government area to remain in the main stream politics adding, “My defecting from a party does not mean dumping Mark. I am the first permanent Secretary and first Minister to come from Orokam after which no other person has been appointed from that area to fill these posts. That was why my people decided I defect to the ruling party to attract such democracy dividend to the area.”
The former Education Minister who insisted that David Mark did well for the Idoma people in his 16 years at the Senate, however, called on the people of Benue South Senatorial District to vote according to their conscience in the Saturday’s rerun election.
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