Former Senate President David Mark has formally departed from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), concluding a 25-year membership with a critical resignation letter that highlights the party’s “deepening divisions” and “public ridicule.”
Hailing from Benue, Mark, who presided over the 6th and 7th Senates, communicated his immediate defection in a formal notice to PDP leadership in Otukpo Ward 1, Benue State.
On Tuesday night, he was appointed interim National Chairman of the ADC, following an agreement brokered by opposition leaders within the newly formed coalition led by ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
“I have remained dedicated to the principles of the PDP,” Mark stated. “Even as nearly all stakeholders abandoned the party after our loss in the 2015 presidential election, I committed to being the last man standing.”
Mark, who served two terms as Senate President, expressed pride in his efforts to revive the party after its 2015 defeat, asserting, “I have diligently worked to rebuild, reconcile, and reposition the party… efforts which have helped restore the PDP to national prominence.”
Despite this, he expressed disappointment that “recent developments, marked by ongoing leadership crises and irreconcilable differences, have reduced the party to a shadow of its former self.”
At the age of 75, Mark announced his decision to join the National Coalition of Political Opposition Movement, framing it as “part of the collective effort to rescue our nation and uphold our hard-earned democracy.”
His resignation letter concluded with a brief “Thank you, and may God bless you,” indicating a clear end to his long association with the PDP.
PDP officials have not yet commented on this situation.
