How former Senate leader under PDP protected Buhari
– Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba extolled President Muhammadu Buhari
– The former lawmaker says the president has so far shown enough political will in the process of governance
The former Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) has publicly protected President Muhammadu Buhari over the current state of the nation.
former Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba extolled President Buhari.
Today ng reports that Ndoma-Egba, who spoke at a ceremony in Calabar, Cross River state capital, where he was formally received into the All Progressives Congress (APC) by members of the national working committee (NWC), said the APC government under the leadership of Buhari should not be blamed because they are coming up from a deep valley and climbing a hill.
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The ex-leader stated that the president has so far shown enough political will in the process of governance to bring about the change he promised Nigerians.
“Things appear slow, but you cannot blame the APC government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari because they are coming up from a deep valley and climbing a hill. So it is going to take a while. But the good news is that he (Buhari) has demonstrated enough will to tread where no other person treaded in the past. And we needed a demonstration of such political will to deepen the change that was promised. So, the will is there and that is evident. The decisiveness on the part of Buhari is a very clear departure from the recent indecisions of the past,” he said.
The former lawmaker who has since returned to his legal practice said the Calabar event where thousands of defected members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were given warm reception by the APC national leaders indicate a new dawn for the people of the state.
“That event sounds the final death knell of the PDP in Cross River State. And even those who still pretend to be members of the PDP, we know that they have left the PDP and many more will be joining us. It is a mass movement. People are just disillusioned with what the PDP had become especially in Cross River State. And they want a breadth of fresh air. They want a change. They want an alternative. So, for us, our commitment is to create the choices, to create the alternative platforms for the people of Cross River State. It’s a new dawn for our people,” Ndoma-Egba said.
The ex-leader added: “for two years my supporters have been urging that I should come out of the PDP. I formally left the PDP in September 2015. I registered with the APC in November 2015. So, what you saw recently in Calabar was just a public display of what had already taking place.”
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman of the APC, on February 14 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state received Ndoma-Egba and former governor of the state, Mr. Clement Ebri as well as Senator Bassey Otu to the party.
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The party chairman on the said day received over 1,000 defectors mainly from the PDP, at the government primary school in Atu, Calabar-South. Other highly placed defectors included a former representative of the state on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Paul Adah, an ex-PDP state chairman, Ambassador Soni Abang, a former governorship aspirant of the PDP, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, a former Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate, Mr. Fidelis Ugbo, a PDP governorship aspirant in the last election, Mr. Francis Bullem, another candidate for the Progressives Peoples Alliance (PPA), Mr. Goddie Akpama, among others.
The state chairman of the PDP, Ntufam John Okon, in a reaction to the mass defection that hit the party, described the exit of the former Senate leader as painful to the party. He disclosed that Ndoma-Egba was his personal friend, adding that his exit from the party was also painful because of the kind of contributions he made toward the development and growth of the last Senate.
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