The senate leader of the 7th national assembly, Victor Ndoma-Egba has given reasons why he has refused to identify with the Peoples Democratic Party after the general elections earlier this year.
Ndoma-Egba had been denied the ticket of the PDP to return to his seat, which led to a war of words between him on one hand, and the state PDP chapter and former governor, Liyel Imoke, on another hand.
Ever since, speculations have been rife that Ndoma-Egba would soon defect to the All Progressives Congress, as many of his supporters has since moved.
Speaking to The Nation in Calabar today, Ndoma-Egba, has said he cannot continue to hang around the PDP anymore.
He said: “What I would say is that for the past three years, I have not had any political life within the PDP because I was shut out and I still have political life in me. So I cannot hang around hoping for PDP for the rest of my life. I am not getting younger.”
On the rumours that he might soon join the APC, he said: “Definitely I would seek a platform to express my political life and consultations are still going on. When we conclude the consultations I would issue a statement and it would be a very loud and clear statement.”
He also reacted to a recent report that some APC members demanded an apology from him for allegedly persecuting them during the last elections, before he defects to their party reacted.
“The philosophy of PDP was to destroy Victor Ndoma-Egba. They spent more time pursuing me than they spent pursuing elections. Now in the last election, I did not even show up because I was shut out completely. Some of my supporters had left for APC and others to Labour Party. So I did not even come home. I was here in Abuja all though the elections.
“I was politically inactive during that period. I did not follow PDP or anybody to any campaign. I was here in Abuja. So who were the people I persecuted, when I was being persecuted myself? I was fighting for my own dear life. So who were people I persecuted? Where did they see me? If I were to persecute anybody, it would be people in PDP. So where are these coming from? The people who said I should apologize, they should tell me who to apologize to and for what,” he said.
Ndoma-Egba was elected into the Senate in 2003 on the platform of the PDP to represent Cross River Central. He became Senate leader in 2011.
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