Abba Moro Denies Sponsoring Smear Campaign against David Mark

The lawmaker representing Benue South District and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Abba Moro, has declared that he holds his predecessor, Senator David Mark, in high esteem and would never sponsor a smear campaign against him.

Senator Mark recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), where he emerged as the National Chairman.

Moro, who was reacting to a recent social media report that he was sponsoring media attacks on the person of Senator Mark, described the allegation as “laughable, very unfortunate, and uncharitable.”

The lawmaker, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Emmanuel John, explained that he has no media attack dogs and would not need social media urchins to remain relevant in the politics of Benue South Senatorial District.

Senator Moro recalled that he served as Senator Mark’s campaign Director General, DG, and “has always defended his records in office and has never spoken a word against Senator Mark before, and since the latter’s defection from PDP, Senator Moro has never spoken against him, not in public, not in private.

“If anything, he has been hushing up supporters from making disparaging remarks about the political development in Benue South, asking that the right of association being expressed by the defectors should be respected, and that’s why no official statement from his office has been issued about the defection since.”

The statement noted that “as a principled public servant and former DG to Senator Mark, Senator Moro will never speak from both sides of the mouth; to praise Senator David Mark and defend his records in office, and now turn around to impugn him and his records.

“Senator Moro is a person of expedience. What he saw in Senator David Mark yesterday is what he’s seeing in him today. He was not brought up in the tradition of insulting elders, and wishes to state categorically that he holds Senator Mark in very high esteem and will accord him respect always.

“He can never and will never instigate anybody to attack the respected elder statesman whom he calls ‘Boss of all Bosses’ or anybody for that matter, as he has nothing to gain from such irresponsibility.”