Senator Boroffice architect of his fate, says Mark

The Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday in Abuja distanced himself from the alleged plot to remove Senator Robert Boroffice (ACN-Ondo) from the Senate.

In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Kola Ologbondiyan, Mark also described the allegation of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as unfounded and mischievous.

According to Mark, Boroffice is the architect of whatever fate befell him in the on-going imbroglio over whether he could retain his seat in the Senate after decamping from Labour Party.

Borrofice was elected into the Senate on the platform of the Labour Party.

ACN Spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, had in a signed statement recently accused Senator Mark-led Senate of using ‘arm-twisting’ tactics to declare Boroffice seat vacant.

However, the Senate President recalled that Boroffice himself wrote to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) notifying the commission of his resignation from the Labour Party (LP).

He had requested the Commission’s opinion on his decision to join the ACN while alleging division in LP.

But the Commission in its response, however, declared that “it had no record of any division in the Labour Party to justify Borrofice’s resignation from the Party”.

The INEC response was dated Sept. 2012, and signed by the Secretary of the Commission, Abdullahi Kaugama.

It had further stated that “Section 68(1)(g) (of the 1999 Constitution as amended) does not operate in your favour as there is no division in the Labour Party’’.

Mark said it was wicked and mischievous for the ACN to allege that the Senate leadership had a hand in Boroffice’s fate, when it was the Senator that personally took himself to INEC.