{"id":32649,"date":"2014-10-31T02:13:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32649"},"modified":"2014-10-31T02:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:13:29","slug":"2015-nigeria-ll-come-stronger-united-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2015-nigeria-ll-come-stronger-united-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: Nigeria &#8216; ll come out stronger, united&#8212;-Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President of the Senate, Senator David Mark\u00a0 has expressed optimism that\u00a0 in spite of the growing anxiety and challenges\u00a0 ahead of the 2015 general elections Nigeria\u00a0 will\u00a0 come out\u00a0 stronger and more united\u00a0 as a nation.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Mark told the visiting European Union (EU) Ambassador to Nigeria Michel Arrion in Abuja today that government has improved and indeed strengthened political institutions to withstand any storm no matter the circumstances.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Senate President stressed:&#8221; Our political situation is steadily\u00a0 progressing . All Nigerians are now more conscious\u00a0 and indeed aware of elections and the processes. Both the government and the governed are now doing the right thing to guarantee a free, fair and credible election.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Steadily, Nigerians have learnt how to play the game according to the rules. I have no doubt that the 2015 elections would\u00a0 be better than our previous elections. It would comply with international best practices. It is going to be exciting and the whole world would appreciate that Nigeria is on the right track democratically.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He\u00a0 however appealed to\u00a0 international election observers to the 2015 polls to report facts about the exercise without sentiment or narrow perspective saying &#8221; election observers should be able to go round in order to get the true position rather than a situation where reports would be based on just\u00a0 a visit to one or two polling units.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Mark pleaded with the EU to assist Nigeria tackle the unabating security challenges pointing out that terrorism\u00a0 is no longer an internal affairs\u00a0 of a nation but already assuming\u00a0 international dimension.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said the nation is doing her best including negotiation to bring the matter to an end as quickly as possible.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Mark assured his guest that government was doing all that is needed to create a conducive atmosphere that would attract local and foreign investors as part of moves to diversify the economy.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Mark &#8221; Nigeria is now investors friendly. It is now investors destination.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier, the EU ambassador to Nigeria,\u00a0 Arrion, said the visit was necessitated by the need to interact with political leaders in Nigeria with a view to ascertaining the political situation ahead of the 2015 polls.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arrion assured that the EU\u00a0 is prepared to assist Nigeria in the processes\u00a0 for the conduct of the 2015 polls pointing out\u00a0 that it is already liaising with the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) for possible assistance and collaboration.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Signed:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul Mumeh , Chief Press Secretary to the President of the Senate.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Senator David Mark\u00a0 has expressed optimism that\u00a0 in spite of the growing anxiety and challenges\u00a0 ahead of the 2015 general elections Nigeria\u00a0 will\u00a0 come out\u00a0 stronger&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2015: Nigeria &#039; 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