Former Senate President, David Mark, has officially resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ending his 25-year membership in a scathing letter that highlights the party’s “deepening divisions” and “public ridicule.”
The Benue born politician, who served as President of the 6th and 7th Senate, announced his immediate defection in a formal resignation notice addressed to PDP leadership in Otukpo Ward 1, Benue State.
Spear News reports that Mark was on Tuesday night named the interim National Chairman of the ADC following an agreement brokered by opposition leaders under the new coalition movement led by former vice president Atiku Abubakar.
“I have remained firm and deeply committed to the ideals of the PDP,” Mark wrote. “Even when nearly all stakeholders departed the party following our loss in the 2015 presidential election, I pledged to remain the last man standing.”
The two term Senate President credited himself with helping rebuild the party after its 2015 defeat, stating: “I have worked steadfastly to rebuild, reconcile, and reposition the partyโฆ efforts which helped restore the PDP to national relevance.”
However, Mark lamented that “recent events marked by persistent leadership crisis and irreconcilable differences have reduced the party to a shadow of its former self.”
The former military governor revealed he would join the National Coalition of Political Opposition Movement, framing the move as “part of the collective effort to rescue our nation and preserve our hard-earned democracy.”
Mark, 75, served in the Senate from 1999 to 2019 and played key roles in Nigeria’s democratic transitions. His resignation letter concluded with a terse “Thank you, and may God bless you,” signaling an apparent end to his decades-long PDP affiliation.
PDP officials have yet to comment on the development.
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