{"id":6191,"date":"2025-08-10T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:40:10","slug":"audu-ogbeh-david-mark-mourns-says-he-was-a-dependable-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/audu-ogbeh-david-mark-mourns-says-he-was-a-dependable-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Audu Ogbeh: David Mark Mourns \u2026Says he was a dependable brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Correspondent<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Interim National Chairman and former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, was visibly moved to tears today over the passing of frontline politician and former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5200\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5200\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David-Mark-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David-Mark-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David-Mark-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/David-Mark.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Senate,President, David Mark<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement by his Media Adviser,Mr Paul Mumeh, former President of the Senate Senator David Mark, a close friend of late Chief Ogbeh in lamenting the loss of his friend, said:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201cI have lost a dependable brother and friend.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chief Ogbeh was reported to have died peacefully at his Abuja residence on Saturday morning.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reacting to the sad news, Senator Mark described his demise as a huge blow to our national political firmament, noting that Ogbeh was a forthright leader who upheld the sanctity of truth and devoted himself to the service of humanity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He recalled that the late elder statesman was among the rare breed of political leaders who genuinely believed in the unity of Nigeria, where no citizen should be oppressed or denied the opportunity to fulfil their dreams.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cOgbeh preached justice, fairness, and equity. He was morally upright even in the face of adversity,\u201d Mark said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, the nation has lost one of her finest and most fertile minds \u2014 a man who gave his all in service to both our country and humanity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201cOgbeh will be remembered for his brilliance, forthrightness, and unwavering integrity,\u201d Mark added.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He urged the government and people of Benue State, as well as his immediate family, to take solace in the fact that their patriarch lived an exemplary life worthy of emulation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ogbeh was a minister of Communications in ill-fated 2nd Republic under late President Shehu Shagari . He was minister of Agriculture under president Muhammadu Buhari.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Interim National Chairman and former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, was visibly moved to tears today over the passing of frontline politician and former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh. In a statement by his Media Adviser,Mr Paul Mumeh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3958,3961,3959,3960],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-frontline","tag-moved","tag-politician","tag-visibly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6192,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}