N748m Official House: You’re Chasing Shadows – David Mark Tells FG, EFCC

Former Senate President, Senator David Mark, has declared that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or any other government agency were chasing shadows in probing how he purchased his N748 million official Apo Residential House.
He stated that he did not flout any law insisting that the allegation was spurious, contrived and baseless.
In a statement through Paul Mumeh, his Media Assistant, Mark noted that if his investigation was about 2019 politics, then, no amount of persecution would alter the will of God.
“The property was ‘duly offered for sale, bid for, and purchased like any other person would in line with Federal Government’s Monetisation Policy that was started during the time of President Olusegun Obasanjo,” the statement read.
“I had the right of first refusal. Even if I did not purchase it, someone else would have.
“I am a law-abiding citizen. I did not flout any law.
“Curiously, four houses occupied by the then Presiding Officers of National Assembly were offered to the occupants.
“All of us, me as the then President of the Senate, Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and his Deputy Bayero Nafada were all given the same offer.
“I am at a loss as to why it is now a subject of contention.
“If this persecution is about politics, my political party and the 2019 elections, I dare say that only God and Nigerians would decide. No amount of persecution would alter the will of God.
“I had refrained from commenting on this because it is already in the law Court. But they have taken the matter to the court of public opinion.”
THEWILL recalls that the Senator is presently being probed by the EFCC and the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property.