Senate: David’s Marks At Mid-Term

[Shola Sholaz]

Until the advent of the Mark Senate in 2007, the Senate had largely been seen as a body in perpetual crises given the undue influence of the executive in its affairs. Now with a leadership largely seen as independent of the executive arm, the legislative body has an opportunity to make its marks.
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The first half of the life of the seventh senate was an opportunity for self discovery for a legislative body that had largely been defined by internal and external crises.
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Though the sixth senate that had the same leadership in the persons of Senator David Mark and Ike Ekweremadu was largely removed from the crises that beclouded the preceding senates, it was, nevertheless, confronted with the monumental crisis that arose from the sickness of President Umaru Yar'adua.
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That senate rose to make a name for itself when Senator Mark proposed the Doctrine of Necessity to salvage a nation that was perched on the margins of an unprecedented constitutional crisis.