Blessing Onuh-Mark, one of the
daughters of immediate past President of the Senate, David Mark, has dumped the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Her
defection came barely two weeks after losing the party’s ticket for
Otukpo/Ohimini Federal Constituency to her uncle, Johnson Egli Ahubi.
Ahubi is the current Deputy
Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly.
It was gathered that Blessing,
who is wife of the former Local Government chairman of Otukpo, Innocent Onuh,
was advised to step aside for her uncle, Ahubi, but she refused.
Before the party’s primaries,
Mrs. Onuh pitched her tent with Chief Mike Onoja, who also lost the Benue South
Senatorial district ticket of the PDP to Abba Moro, former Interior Minister.
Few weeks after losing the PDP
ticket, Onoja joined the Social Democratic Party where the former party’s
senatorial flag bearer, Adakole Ijogi, stepped down for him.
A source hinted our reporter on
Tuesday that Mrs. Onuh had equally picked the SDP ticket to slug it out in the
2019 general elections with his uncle, Ahubi, and other contenders.
“The truth is, Blessing was not
happy with the whole drama that played out. She is also not happy because her
father did not use his influence to get her the ticket.
“But (Okpani) Mark told her to
wait until 2023 but she refused. Senator Mark doesn’t want to impose his
daughter on the people. Now, she has picked the SDP ticket with Mike Onoja who
also decamped from PDP last week,” the source hinted this reporter.
A chieftain of the party in Benue
South, who pleaded anonymity, described her exit as ‘immaterial’
“She was not known before now as
a member of the party, she was only riding on her father’s influence. Her
defection is immaterial and we don’t care if she’s leaving or not.
“Well, it has not been made known
but I don’t think it is worth discussing,” the PDP chieftain told our reporter
in Otukpo.
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