The Forum of Idoma professionals in the Diaspora have condemned what it described as unjustified attacks on the senate president, David Mark, by elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai.
The Forum described as unfortunate the statement credited to Tanko Yakasai attacking the senate president over his warning that the possible consequence of the Boko Haram activities was to force the country into a religious war or disentegration.
In a statement signed by Paul Ejembi, its acting president, the Forum said ordinarily it would have ignored the comment, but senator David Mark is the father of the Idoma nation and no right thinking Idoma child will ignore any invectives on his or her father
It reminded critics of the stabilising role the senate presidnt played in the days of uncertainty surrounding the death of late president Umar Yar’Adua
“It is on record that the senate president has piolted the affairs of the senate in a manner that senators from all parts of the country and different religious persuasions have never had cause to complain of arbitrariness or sectionalism and have by so doing helped to stabilise our democracy”.
Ejembi queried Yakasai’s logic that only 18 LGAs in the country were affected and therefore of no consequence, stating that Nigerians have been killed in their thousands without northern leaders doing anything to stop the mayhem
“How many businesses have been destroyed since the senseless killings started? How many families have been seperated or have even disintegrated since the pogroms started?” He querried.