You Are Mischievous, Mark Hits Bankole

Senate President David Mark yesterday took strong exception to reports that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, had ordered the withdrawal of the revised 1999 Constitution from the state Houses of Assembly on the basis that the version sent was fake. A visibly angry Senate president said such "disposition is mischievous and unacceptable".

Mark's outburst may have signaled the igniting of a fresh crisis between both chambers.

"There is no need for one to go to the media asking the clerk of the National Assembly to withdraw what was sent to the state Houses of Assembly. We were all here when the deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, gave details of all the sections amended," Mark stated.

"It is unfortunate. For anybody to be going about saying that they should withdraw the documents is certainly the height of mischief," he added.

Mark said that the best way the House ought to have gone about it was to go through the deputy Senate president, who is chairman of the Constitution Amendment.

"We have all the amendments including that of the two Houses. It is wrong to go to the media to say that the version transmitted to the states is the Senate version," he stated.

Earlier, Senator Ekweremadu had briefed the Senate on the renewed conflict ignited by Hon. Bankole over the constitution: asking the clerk to withdraw documents sent to the State Houses of Assembly and replace it with another.

"I believe this is a mistake on the part of the House. I want to assure my colleagues and Nigerians that what was sent to the Houses of Assembly was essentially the harmonised version of the Constitutional amendments. If there is any confusion at any point, I believe it must have been deliberate and designed to frustrate the exercise," he said.

I dont't know what has become of Dimeji neither do I know what he is becoming.
Very sad truth of how power corrupts,please Bankole relates to your humble root .

What is all this,Honourables trading insulting words,Is this what we expect,can this happen in a civilized society?.

I think Mark is ploting Bankole's fall bt i know Bankole 'll be too smart for him to handle.

Hope they are not fooling us with a delay tactics. Let's wait and see.

What we asked them to do is to pass the constitution not argument and insults,that is what civilized people do in their nations.